Kevin Carey

Last week the U.S. Department of Education released the final version of its highly-controversial, long-anticipated “gainful employment” regulations, which are designed to crack down on abuses in the for-profit higher education industry. While the Department kept the basic structure and theory of the regulatory structure first announced last year, many of the specific parameters were […]

Education Sector published a new report today that Rob Manwaring and I wrote, about using growth models in K-12 accountability systems. The long and the short of it is that when NCLB was written 10 years ago, most states had neither annual tests nor statewide data systems that track the movement of individual students among […]

Share Stanford University School of Education professor Linda Darling-Hammond’s new book, touted by education reform haters as an antidote to Obama administration policy, contains a whole section on lessons from Finland, including a glowing description of Finnish teacher preparation. As a fellow veteran Finland edu-junketeer, I can attest that her description is accurate: Prospective teachers […]

The New York Times reports that the Republican presidential field is caught in a “you first!” death spiral in which good candidates won’t commit to running without support from big-money paymasters and big-money paymasters won’t open their wallets until good candidates commit to running. As a result, when the South Carolina Republican party threw a […]