On vacation

I am on vacation for the next two weeks. It is very unlikely that I will blog during that period. So regular readers will need to get their fix elsewhere. I highly recommend this clever fellow for those looking for new and interesting content.

Explosive for-profit school report details horrific exploitation

Senator Harkin completed a massive report on the state of for-profit schools in the United States titled For Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success. The New York Times and the Washington Post both have coverage. There are so many terrible things going on in for-profit schools that… Continue reading Explosive for-profit school report details horrific exploitation

Necessary and sufficient conditions for improving educational achievement of poor kids

In my last post, I wrote about how education reformers basically dodge the poverty question altogether. Here is a more technical way to think about that discussion. Thus far the entire education reform debate has been centered on arguing for and against this claim: poverty reduction is a necessary condition for improving educational achievement among… Continue reading Necessary and sufficient conditions for improving educational achievement of poor kids