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Federal Action Lags Behind Public Opinion on Early Ed
A new bipartisan poll reveals that Americans overwhelmingly support government investment in early education.
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.
Storify: Moving Beyond Subprime Learning
Beyond Subprime Learning: Our Ideas for Accelerating Progress in Early Education
Our new report calls for policies that are aimed at improving the quality of interactions between teachers and children.
E-rate Reform: Making the Conversation (Wi-Fi) Accessible
Why shouldn’t public schools have Wi-Fi too?
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?
The Case Against Exit Exams
Our report identifies alternative policy approaches to exit exams these states can use.
Accountability and the Birth through 12th Grade Continuum
Integrating early education into the greater K-12 system provides children with a more cohesive and coordinated educational experience.
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.
Improving Accreditation Part IV: What Accreditors Should Do
Accreditors need to start taking greater and more public responsibility for self-driven improvement.
OTI Analysis of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 2588)
The following is the introduction to the Open Technology Institute's analysis of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA, S.
Parent Voices: Doubts, then Excitement on Texts to Promote Literacy
How families got on board with Ounce of Prevention to promote their kids' literacy.
Q-and-A with Alexis Lauricella on Parenting Texts and Early Literacy
An interview with Northwestern University's Alexis Lauricella to learn about an initiative that texted parents to help build kids' literacy.
The CISPA-Zombie Won’t Die
Despite over a year of major disclosures about how the NSA violates Americans’ privacy and engages in cyber operations that make the Interne