What’s in the Department’s Competency-Based Experimental Site Notice?
Results from the eagerly anticipated study on competency based testing.
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The New Workforce Bill, Adult Learners, and Pathways to Higher Education: Things Just Got a Little Easier
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was finally reauthorized on Tuesday, July 22nd.
A Hefty Price to Pay to Simplify Tax-Based Student Aid
I’m sure we can all think of better ways to spend nearly $100 billion to help financially-needy students pay for college.
Common Core and Higher Education: A View from the Trenches
Most attention to the Common Core State Standards has focused understandably on the continued political backlash against the standards
How Earnings Measure College Quality
We can no longer exclude graduates’ post-completion earnings from the postsecondary quality debate.
‘Unaccompanied Children’ Crisis Has Implications for Education Budget
One thing is becoming clear: Immigration may not be the only policy affected by unaccompanied children.
Common Core Goes to College: Building Better Connections Between High School and Higher Education
Many of those within higher education were not involved in developing or endorsing the Common Core standards and assessments.
No One is Watching Over the Student Loan Repo Man
This week, the Inspector General came out with a new report evaluating the Department’s oversight over the collection companies.
Necessary but insufficient: current measures of college quality
Just how limited are these measures of college quality and in what ways can they speak at least somewhat to quality?
City College of San Francisco was ‘Too Big to Fail’
In The New York Times, Kevin Carey explains how accreditors are powerless in keeping too-big-to-fail institutions.