As Kevin noted earlier, a few major publications are starting to glom onto the fact that health care’s slow progress has basically stalled the pending legislation to revamp the federal student loan programs. The latest entrant is the New York Times, which in a nice piece of symmetry, both ended and began this week with [...]
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Why the U.S. News Peer Survey Will Never Die, and Probably Shouldn’t
The Yale Daily News reports that, in a “major statement,” Yale refused to fill out the U.S. News & World Report college rankings peer reputation survey this year, while also refusing to join other private colleges and universities in signing a letter promising to boycott said survey. To begin, this is only true if by “major” [...]
Putting the Teaching Company Out of Business
If you read the New York Times Book Review or similar publications, you’ve probably noticed advertisements for “The Teaching Company,” which sells audio recordings of college lectures. They’ve been around for a while and imagine NYT advertising space isn’t cheap, so there must be a market here. I’ve always been vaguely tempted to buy one, [...]
Rankings Revolt?
Last week’s article in Time about a group of private college presidents trying to foment an anti-U.S. News & World Report rankings revolution has prompted a spate of follow-up, including this piece in the Yale Daily News. Yale President Richard Levin struck a note a note of skepticism:
Levin said that although he disagrees with the [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.