Everyone wants to be "the best." Stuyvesant High School in New York City is one of those considered to be winning the race to the top. According to this picture, and the New York Times, not so ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Who Gets Paid What?
Today the Chronicle of Higher Education released information on the "Median Salaries of Senior College Administrators by Job Category and Type of Institution,...
Picture of the Day: Wisconsin Races to the Bottom
This is from Tom Mortenson's Postsecondary Education Opportunity Report, Feb 2...
What We're Reading: New Evidence on College Prep and Financial Aid
The National Bureau of Economic Research has released a couple of new papers worth reading.(1) A new study from Kirabo Jackson at Northwestern considers...
Friday, February 24, 2012
A Post-Racial Era?
A fellow professor at an institution that shall remain nameless (truly) just forwarded me an email he just received. It has been modestly modified only...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Wisconsin Legislators Attack Academic Freedom at UW System
Lest you thought their interests in UW System were merely economic, Wisconsin legislators have now baldly demonstrated their political agendas with regard to institutions of public higher education. ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Squeeze Public Higher Education-- And Watch it Squirm
Make no mistake about it-- a conservative agenda in public higher education, quite similar to the one for public k-12, is steadily progressing across...
Monday, February 20, 2012
Strengthening Our Democratic Enterprise: Education Policy in the 21st Century
This guest post is from Dr. Barbara Ferman, Founder and Executive Director, University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia and Professor of Political...
Friday, February 17, 2012
Focus on Pell
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities has released a new report highlighting the use of federal student financial aid by states...
Monday, February 13, 2012
Playing the College Ranking Game: How to Stop Gaming the System and Improve Rankings
The following is a guest post by Robert Kelchen, doctoral student at UW-Madison. The recent revelation by Claremont McKenna College that it falsely...
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Focus On Developing Teachers, Not Simply Measuring Them
This cross-posted item is from a piece I wrote for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation's TOP-Ed blog.-----------------------------------------------Amid the current flurry of state policy reform activity...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Think Outside Your Box
It is often said that access/diversity and affordability in higher education can only come at the expense of quality. Thus, it is all-too-common for critics to...
Crossing Wires
A recent exchange between Chris Rickert and Mike Knetter provides a useful example of what happens when we engage in policy discussions without being...
Monday, February 6, 2012
On Tuition Flexibility
This Wednesday the Wisconsin Special Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilities will hear from the chancellors of Madison and Milwaukee...
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Are you there Kevin? It's me, neoliberalism
In a recent blog Kevin Carey took on Claire Potter’s critique of Obama’s higher education proposal by chastising her for using the term neoliberalism,...
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