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Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey directs the education policy program at New America.
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Posted inCollege Guide, Education, Featured, Magazine, September/October 2018
Why More Colleges Should Treat Students Like Numbers
A few universities are using predictive analytics to boost student success. Are they outliers—or the wave of the future?
Posted inApril/May/June 2018, Books, Featured, Magazine
Classless
A libertarian economist calls for ending public education as we know it. It’s a radical proposal—and deeply wrong.
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2017
Introduction: A Different Kind of College Ranking
We gathered the best available data and ranked colleges not on what they did for themselves, but on what they did for their country.
Posted inEducation, K-12
Teachers Should Tell the Truth About Trump
The president-elect is a bigot and children are right to be scared.
Posted inMagazine, September/October 2016
Introduction: A Different Kind of College Ranking
We gathered the best available data and ranked colleges not on what they did for themselves, but on what they did for their country.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Intruders at Harvard: The Rise and Fall of America’s Greatest University, as Told by Often Terrible Hollywood Movies
In October 1986, New World Pictures released a romantic comedy called Soul Man, starring teen heartthrob C. Thomas Howell. At the time, Howell was often mentioned in the company of Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Matt Dillon, his co-stars in Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Outsiders. He had made Red Dawn with […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
I Would Send My Daughter To The University of Everywhere
Teacher, education writer, and fellow SUNY alum Robert Pondiscio has written a generous critique of my book, The End of College. Of my arguments that modern colleges and universities are “operating on a deeply flawed and increasingly unsupportable model,” he grants that “I’m sure this is true, and worse.” Yet now that his daughter has […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Jennifer Lawrence and the Sins of Animal House
Remember Animal House? The insane debauchery of John Belushi and his Delta brethren? That was some crazy, hilarious, make-a-Roman-emperor-blush behavior. I love that movie. Everyone does. Except you don’t remember Animal House. Not really. No other book, film, or TV show has done more to shape American higher education. But it’s not what you think […]
