QUICK Hits � The Quick and the Ed

QUICK Hits � 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.

• Seriously—did you ever try to find anything useful on a university web site? (h/t The Educated Reporter)
• Couldn’t she have just called in sick? What one teacher did to avoid a classroom observation. (NY Post)
• What’s the science that explains how Wizards’ lottery pick player John Wall can make those astounding passes? (Sport Science)
• Courts, charter schools, and the balance of power: How will Aspire overcome revoked charters from the 1st Court of Appeals? (The Educated Guess)

Senator Enzi Finds the Right Line of Attack

by Chad Aldeman

The Senate HELP Committee is holding a hearing this morning on for-profit colleges, which have been in the news a lot lately for their questionable recruitment practices. Follow this morning’s meeting on the Committee’s site or read Education Sector’s live commentary on Twitter.
What’s interesting is that Senator Enzi has hit on a really effective critique, asking, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Why are we focusing only on for-profit institutions when we should be scrutinizing all sectors of higher education? We should be asking the same questions of non-profit and public colleges.”