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Early Language Lessons to Close the New Achievement Gap

  • By
  • Maggie Severns,
  • New America Foundation
April 29, 2013 |
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College Graduates Deserve Much More Than Transcripts

  • By
  • Kevin Carey,
  • New America Foundation
April 29, 2013 |
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The Smart Way to Use iPads in the Classroom

  • By
  • Lisa Guernsey,
  • New America Foundation
April 15, 2013 |
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The Brave New World of College Branding

  • By
  • Kevin Carey,
  • New America Foundation
March 25, 2013 |
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Tearing Up the Syllabus in the Name of Social Enterprise

  • By
  • Eric Tyler,
  • New America Foundation
March 13, 2013 |

"Who brought the syllabus to class today?"

Students rifled through their backpacks and pulled out their syllabuses, ready on their first day to hear the rundown of the teacher's agenda for the rest of the semester.

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Fixing Financial Aid

  • By
  • Kevin Carey,
  • New America Foundation
March 4, 2013 |

In 1972, Clark Kerr was, once again, helping shape the future of American higher education. He was 61 years old, and his greatest works lay behind him. The California Master Plan for Higher Education, which he helped broker in 1960, would become the model for organizing public colleges and universities. The Uses of the University, delivered 50 years ago this April as the Godkin Lecture at Harvard University, became one of those rare books that both predicted and, through sheer force of insight, created the future.

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Putting a Number on Federal Education Spending

  • By
  • Jason Delisle,
  • New America Foundation
February 27, 2013 |

In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed to expand access to preschool, but offered few details on how much money the federal government would contribute. When the White House eventually releases that figure, everyone will want to know how it stacks up against what the federal government already spends on education each year. The trouble is, that number is tough to pin down. You might try to look it up.

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Why Preschool Isn't Enough

  • By
  • Lisa Guernsey,
  • Laura Bornfreund,
  • New America Foundation
February 25, 2013 |

At a Georgia preschool last week, President Obama sat in a tiny wooden chair and played a science game with a group of four-year-olds. He held up a magnifying glass and peered playfully at the little boy next to him. For a second it looked as if he was trying to figure him out. It is an apt metaphor of where our country stands on education these days. Obama's preschool plan builds on a decade's fascination with studies on brain growth.

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Too Much 'Merit Aid' Requires No Merit

  • By
  • Kevin Carey,
  • New America Foundation
February 19, 2013 |

On June 9, 1904, Harvard's president, Charles W. Eliot, wrote a letter to Charles Francis Adams Jr. A former railroad executive, Adams was a member of the college's Board of Overseers and, as a grandson of John Quincy Adams, a multigenerational Harvard legacy. The two men were quarreling over the question of raising tuition to ease a financial crisis. Wrote Eliot:

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Credit for Internships: Is It Due?

  • By
  • Kevin Carey,
  • New America Foundation
January 30, 2013 |
JOB listings on Craigslist these days are full of companies looking for young people willing to work for no salary. In New York, internships are available at businesses ranging from advertising agencies in midtown to a “cake studio” in Brooklyn. They want people who are “positive” and “energetic.” And one more thing: they want college students. As one agency looking for an unpaid videographer put it, “PLEASE NOTE: You must be in school and receive school credit in order to join us.”
 
Why would companies care about college credit?
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