Texas Governor Rick Perry’s has had a tough go with higher education. Costs to attend the state’s college have shot past the support the state provides to students. State community colleges, for example, are 90 percent more expensive since 2000 while, over the same period, government spending increased only 23 percent. The disparity is even […]
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Desegregation In Wake County
Trymaine Lee has a fascinating story on the role Americans for Prosperity played in dismantling a school desegregation program in North Carolina: Since 2000, Wake County has used a system of integration based on income. Under this program, no more than 40 percent of any school’s students could receive subsidized lunches, a proxy for determining […]
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Dodgeball
Education reformers aren’t tackling the root problems that lead to bad schools.
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If By “The District of Columbia” You Mean “College Educated White People”
The problem with economic commentary posting that DC is insulated from the recession and that said insulation gives policy-makers an unrealistically rosy view of the economy is that it basically ignores that an entire segment of the city isn’t insulated from the recession. So here’s Catherine Rampell: In every state, a majority of residents think […]
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Getting It Wrong on Education
Dana Goldstein points to recent studies indicating that the Obama administration and prominent education reformers who are pushing high-stakes testing and teacher accountability-oriented reforms may have reform all wrong: Last week the National Academies of Science published a synthesis of 10 years worth of research on 15 American test-based incentive programs, finding they demonstrated few […]
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Pass Without Distinction
The Department of Education cracks down on the worst for-profit scams,
but lets those that are just “bad” off easy.
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College Behind Bars
Just 6 percent of prisoners are enrolled in postsecondary education, and of that number, most are enrolled in vocational certificate programs — less than a quarter are working toward an associate’s or bachelor’s degree. So reports the Chronicle of Higher Education today, summarizing a new study from the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Here’s the […]
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The University And Its Discontents
Here’s a tale of two pronouncements. One day, Malcolm Harris writes in N+1 magazine that “no one dares call higher education a bad investment.” Just a few days later, Daniel B. Smith writes in New York magazine that “it is hard to think of a time when skepticism of the value of higher education has […]
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A Broad-Based Solution to Our Energy Problem
The real solution to our oil-consumption problem won’t be solved by energy policy.
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The Voucher Revival
Conservative efforts to bring vouchers back to the District just highlight how much such programs have fallen out of favor.
