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November 2, 2012Kevin CareyNovember 2, 2012AT the end of “Fundamentals of Atomic Force Microscopy,” a short online course offered by Purdue University, students who score at least 60 percent on the...
View ArticlePARCC Defines College and Career Readiness, But Will It Matter?
46 states and Washington, D.C. have adopted and pledged to implement the Common Core standards and assessments, but authentic implementation of the standards remains elusive. And it’s not because...
View ArticleWaiver Watch: Time for ED to Get Serious about Graduation Rates
Last week on Ed Money Watch, Clare McCann reported on the new, comparable, statewide high school graduation rates released by the U.S. Department of Education. The bottom line: graduation rates are...
View ArticleWho Will Hold Colleges Accountable?
December 10, 2012Kevin CareyDecember 10, 2012Last month The Chronicle of Higher Education published a damning investigation of college athletes across the nation who were maintaining their eligibility...
View ArticleFor Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall
December 22, 2012Jason DeParleDecember 22, 2012Angelica Gonzales marched through high school in Goth armor — black boots, chains and cargo pants — but undermined her pose of alienation with a place on...
View ArticleRachel's Resource Review: The U.S. Department of Education’s studentaid.gov
There is an abundance of free resources available to students and families to learn about the college-going process, but they haven’t been vetted or organized in a practical way. Over the next few...
View ArticleWhat to Think about the MET Project Results
What can you do with $45 million and three years? Well, if you’re the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, you can confirm, empirically, what educators have always known implicitly: great teaching...
View ArticleCollege-Ready Wars Update: Alabama Leaves Test Consortia
It seems that the stakes in the college-ready war have been raised. Today, Education Week broke the news that Alabama was pulling out as a participant in both Common Core testing consortia, PARCC and...
View ArticleSOTU: A Career-Ready Race to the Top or a Call for Perkins Reauthorization?
Yesterday, President Barack Obama reiterated his call from the State of the Union to provide universal pre-K to all children in America. But tucked in with his remarks was a pitch for another proposal...
View ArticleToo Much 'Merit Aid' Requires No Merit
February 19, 2013Kevin CareyFebruary 19, 2013On June 9, 1904, Harvard's president, Charles W. Eliot, wrote a letter to Charles Francis Adams Jr. A former railroad executive, Adams was a member of the...
View ArticleReport: We’re Building a Grad Nation, but Challenges Remain
While many education advocates prepare for the looming sequester on March 1, the education policy news in D.C. wasn’t all bad this week. The nation is now on track– for the first time– to reach a 90...
View ArticleWaiver Watch: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Texas has joined Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and 46 other states (including Washington, D.C.) in seeking waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB). With Nebraska and Montana sitting out, Vermont and North...
View ArticleCollege-Ready Wars: Assessing Threats to the Common Core
Although the deadline for all students to achieve proficiency in math and reading has been lifted in most states by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers, 2014 test anxiety is high as ever. That’s...
View ArticleFirst Look: Sen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act
Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released yet another attempt to reauthorize No Child Left Behind: the Strengthening America’s...
View ArticleHarkin, Alexander, and Waivers: Your ESEA Markup Cheat Sheet
Tomorrow morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will markup the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, the latest ESEA reauthorization proposal from Chairman Tom Harkin...
View ArticleStorify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup
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View ArticleSyllabus: Week of June 10, 2013
Welcome to the Syllabus, a guide that provides insight into what’s happening in higher education.Read:Going to College is Worth it – Even if You Drop Out, Dylan MatthewsThe Washington PostThere was a...
View ArticleThe Reality of College Readiness 2013
In a companion report to The Condition of College & Career Readiness, a recent paper from ACT traces enrollment, retention, re-enrollment, and migration patterns of 2011 ACT-tested high school...
View ArticleWaivers (of Waivers) Watch: If It Looks Like a Pause, and It Sounds Like a...
Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan weighed in on the question of whether states can delay their timeline for using Common Core assessments in accountability systems for schools and...
View ArticleUpdate: A New NCLB Reauthorization Cheat Sheet
After the partisan markup in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, it is the House of Representatives' turn to debate reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. The Student Success...
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