I magine you’re about to put a chunk of your life savings into a mutual fund. Now imagine you peruse the various “best mutual fund” guides on the news rack, only to find they’re all missing crucial pieces of information. The guides list where the fund managers went to college, how much investment capital they’ve […]
Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey directs the education policy program at New America.
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Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Measuring What Matters
Irked by what they saw as flaws in U.S. News’s methodology for ranking colleges, a group of reformers in the late 1990s pioneered a new approach. With a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, a panel of educational experts set out to develop a way to quantify how well colleges actually teach their undergraduates. The […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
America’s Best Community Colleges
Why they’re better than some four-year universities.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Built to Teach
What your alma mater could learn from Cascadia Community College
Posted inMagazine
Transformation 101
Technology is driving down the cost of teaching undergraduates. So why are tuition bills going up?
Posted inMagazine
Admired, Not Read
Marketing “Great Books” to the masses may have been a silly idea. But requiring college students to read them isn’t.
Posted inMagazine, May/June/July 2008
Too Weird for The Wire
How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds.
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Too Weird for The Wire
n November 16, 2005, Willie Bo Mitchell and three co-defendantsShelton Little Rock Harris, Shelly Wayne Martin, and Shawn Earl Gardner appeared for a hearing in the modern federal courthouse in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The four African American men were facing federal charges of racketeering, weapons possession, drug dealing, and five counts of first-degree murder. For […]
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Portrait of an Inbox
onday, March 10, 6:45 a.m.: The first e-mail of the week arrives on Margie Yeager’s Palm Treo, from an elementary school principal in the District of Columbia who needs volunteers to restock his library shelves. Yeager reads the e-mail in bed a few minutes after waking. Eventually she gets up, walks into her kitchen, and […]
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No Complaint Left Behind
Of the roughly 170 public elementary schools in Maryland where more than 70 percent of students live in poverty, only three had better test scores last year than Tyler Heights Elementary. A K-5 school built near the low-income housing projects of Annapolis, Tyler more than doubled its pass rates on state reading and math tests […]
