What K-12 Can Learn from For-Profit Higher Ed
Good Education Week overview on the growth of for-profit virtual learning companies in K-12 education. Predictably, the article quotes a detractor focused on the tax status of those providing the...
View ArticleReal-time Online Credit Recovery
As high schools seek to improve graduation rates, respond to cuts in summer school, and offer new options for students, they are increasingly turning to online credit recovery. I’ve always thought that...
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The Broken Accreditation System
Michale McComis on the hot seat (HELP Committee) No one emerged looking worse from Wednesday”s Senate hearing on for-profits than Michale McComis, the executive director of the Accrediting Commission...
View ArticleSchool Inspection Needs to Start with Overhaul of High School Accreditation
I was shocked when recently I read something on Valerie Strauss’ blog and I actually agreed with it. Monty Neill from Fair Test writes about the need for school quality reviews as part of a broader...
View ArticleDigital Learning Council Recommendations Missing Details on Quality
This morning, Digital Learning Now, a new advocacy effort led by former Governors Jeb Bush (R-FL) and Bob Wise (D-WV), published 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning, a set of state policy...
View ArticleMore on Digital Learning and Quality
I ruffled a few feathers with my friendly critique that the Digital Learning Council recommendations were “light on details for ensuring that innovation actually leads to more high-quality educational...
View ArticleAccreditation, Sex Dungeons, and For-Profit Higher Education
One of the under-appreciated techniques of investigative journalism is indictment via strategic use of paragraph breaks. Like this, from a Chronicle of Higher Education story about the University of...
View ArticleQuick Hits 8.2.11
In Michigan, fewer than 50 percent of students are proficient in writing. The spring 2010 ACT exam found that 238 schools had zero college-ready students. Yet the state has accredited all but 12...
View ArticleQuick Hits (9.21.11)
Kansas City schools lose accreditation. Kansas City officials and community members are reeling over a state decision Tuesday to strip the city school district of its accreditation. Schools are bracing...
View ArticleA Higher Ed Soap Opera
The accreditation woes of City College of San Francisco are the closest thing higher education has to a soap opera. Like any soap opera, it can be hard to jump in midstream, so here is my recap of the...
View ArticleWill Minerva’s New Match Bring It Mainstream Credibility?
When I heard yesterday that the Minerva Project—seeking a pathway to accreditation —was entering a partnership with the highly specialized Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, part of the...
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Higher Ed Data Central: Which Accreditors Have Been the Most Lenient?
Robert Kelchin brought our attention to a nice data visualization on default rates at Around Learning. Go check it out. On the last graph, you can look at default rates by accreditor, which prompted me...
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Higher Ed Data Central: Which Accreditors Have Been the Most Lenient? (Part 2)
Last week we looked at which accreditors had the most lenient standards (by one measure anyway) for four-year colleges. Today, we’ll look at the same question for two-year colleges. We identified...
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Why Accredit Colleges and Universities That (New Data Shows) Aren’t Delivering?
A decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education began reporting “Student Right To Know” graduation rates for America’s colleges and universities. While this federally mandated measure is flawed—covering...
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