Sunshine on College Credit Card Contracts � The Quick and the Ed

Sunshine on College Credit Card Contracts � The Quick and the Ed

QUICK Hits

by Forrest Hinton

Quick Hits is a short compilation of question-raising news stories, blog posts, and video clips that Education Sector team members are reading and viewing each day.

• Is it lying in some cases to give students partial credit for partial understanding on state assessments? (Core Knowledge Blog)
• Does the education reform movement need more debate and careful scrutiny? (Rick Hess Straight Up)
• Is the “energetic, decentralized but forceful reform approach” used by the Obama administration in education worth exporting to other policy issues? (The New York Times)
• A better way to borrow? (Inside Higher Ed)
• The never-ending debate: National/Common education standards—good or bad? (Cato)

Sunshine on College Credit Card Contracts

by Ben Miller

Though computers and e-mail were widespread by the time I entered college in the fall of 2003, the major throwback to increasingly outdated technology was a landline phone number that my school provided to everyone who lived on campus. Because cell reception in my freshman dorm was pretty spotty, my roommate and I decided it made sense to get a cordless phone to use from time to time.
The phone mostly went unused through the first few months of the semester, but we suddenly started getting a constant barrage of phone calls, starting at the inconvenient for college student hour of 9 a.m. and continuing throughout the day. What was strange was the person on the other end always knew to ask for either my roommate or myself–something I found curious since the numbers are randomly assigned to new people