Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Big thanks to J.B. Schramm for stepping in while I was away. College-going and grad rates seems to have been something of a theme last week along with some other issues: Six Degrees of Kevin Carey. In The Los Angeles Times Kevin Carey and Lindsey Luebchow write about graduation rates for athletes and the NCAA …
Gotta be fast on the draw around here. Reader Emily Cherniack of the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Education Programs was the first to email the correct answer to this morning’s contest: Ravitch was Kosar’s dissertation advisor. She wins a book (second prize, two books!).
Kevin Kosar, author of this book about national standards, turns in an op-ed on their resurgence as an issue. In The Chronicle of Higher Education Diane Ravitch discusses the evolution of national standards setting. There is a connection here, non-issue specific, first reader to email it in wins a free copy of Collective Bargaining In …