Daniel Luzer

Update on the San Francisco plan to help kindergartners save for college: it’s now a reality. According to an article by John Cote in the San Francisco Chronicle: About 1,200 newly enrolled kindergartners at 18 San Francisco public schools who will get a one-time payment of at least $50 in taxpayer funds placed in a […]

For years international college education meant—aside from the junior year abroad—basically only reasonably wealthy foreign students coming to study at American universities. American universities, after all, were thought to be the best in the world; if the family could afford it an American B.A. was totally worth it. Things are a little different now. As […]

Given the plethora of links to articles I’ve been receiving lately, it looks like, at least among the education policy community, the Obama administration’s community college summit yesterday is becoming big news. But just because it’s about education doesn’t mean that the summit, and implied dedication, isn’t also very, very political. As Daniel de Vise […]

The White House summit on community colleges occurred yesterday. It marked what the Washington Post called “perhaps the finest hour in the 109-year history of ‘junior’ colleges.” Finest in terms of recognition, though perhaps not in terms of actual policy changes. As Daniel de Vise wrote in the Post: Jill Biden, the vice president’s wife […]

The goals for higher education and the goals for workforce training—while theoretically complementary (“more college-educated workers will improve the economy”)—are often troublesome on the ground. Last week, for instance, a publication of the American Federation of Teachers complained that the goal of sending everyone to college essentially prepared low-achieving students for failure; they just didn’t […]

Attention Colorado families: it’s now time to get prepared to spend more money to send your kids to college. According to an article by Todd Engdahl in State Bill Colorado: State colleges and universities filed tuition flexibility plans with the state Department of Higher Education Friday, the first such requests under a new state law […]

The debate about the proper role of for-profit colleges in the American education system has apparently now taken on weirdly partisan implications. Tamar Lewin wrote in the New York Times that the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment rule is putting policymakers in two camps: [Iowa’s Democratic Senator Tom] Harkin argued against for-profits — citing […]

Leland Yee, a California State Senator who’s made something of a career out of criticizing higher education spending, sponsored a bill that would require foundations and other groups that support the University of California or the California State University systems to disclose donor lists to the public. No such luck. According to an article in […]

Earlier this week, on Thursday, two groups met to talk about America’s proprietary colleges. They met at the same time, and in mostly the same place. Both groups were made up of Republicans and Democrats.Both groups were vaguely designed to address issues pertaining to the American working class. The two groups didn’t meet each other. […]

One of the curious things about covering college is how rare it is to find people who talk seriously about alternatives to college. There might be a reason for that. The magazine of the American Federation of Teachers, however, decided to publish a piece about other ways for people to succeed, even without a college […]