<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Higher Education</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/columns/highered?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><description>Higher Education</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Good Report Card, Self-Administered]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9021-2001Jul30.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9021-2001Jul30.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Conservatives are angry about the concessions &#150; including the elimination of private school vouchers &#150; made in President Bush's plan to overhaul federal education policy.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NAEP Results Create Confusion Over Scores]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19458-2001Sep24.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19458-2001Sep24.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A report this month from the Brookings Institution indicates the gap in National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test scores may be narrowing, not widening.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher Ed: The Education Department]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60511-2000Nov26.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60511-2000Nov26.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The student loan industry has taken its competitor to court. The defendant: the Department of Education.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher Ed: The Education Department]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45134-2000Oct30.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45134-2000Oct30.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Richard W. Riley and his top deputies don't like it one bit, but the word "fraud" keeps popping up in connection with the department.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher Ed: The Education Department]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35893-2000Oct8.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35893-2000Oct8.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Education Department has been having a few problems with counting.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indians File Complaint Over Michigan Club]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52753-2000Sep11.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52753-2000Sep11.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Education Department is reviewing a civil rights complaint that accuses the University of Michigan of discriminating against Native Americans.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotions in Check in Job Bias Settlement]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10921-2000Jul19.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10921-2000Jul19.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The government is supposed to be the ultimate protector of civil rights, so it's understandable that whenever federal employees believe they've been discriminated against on the job, they tend to air their strong feelings of hurt, anger and betrayal in public.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools' Next Cyber-Step: E-Literacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25894-2000Jun8.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25894-2000Jun8.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Four years ago, President Clinton had a master plan for technology in education: a computer in every classroom and every classroom wired to the Internet, computer training for all teachers and instructional software available to all students.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[School Repair Bonds Draw Little Interest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46289-2000May21.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46289-2000May21.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[They're called "QZABs," which sounds like a new brand of Q Tips, but they're not. Qualified Zone Academy Bonds are the government's only answer so far for fixing the nation's crumbling school buildings.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Panel Upset at U.S. Study on Texas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5719-2000Apr3.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5719-2000Apr3.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A House committee yesterday demanded a copy of what it called an Education Department employee's report questioning the validity of rising Texas school test scores. But a department spokeswoman said officials are uncertain whether the document even exists.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocking the Larder for Congressional Pets]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20951-2000Apr5.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20951-2000Apr5.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Not many people outside the Education Department and the ivory tower have ever heard of FIPSE, as the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education is known in those circles.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher Ed: Department of Education]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38518-2000Mar8.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38518-2000Mar8.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Do something about the nation's schools, the public has been demanding, and so the government has gotten busy opening new areas of federal aid and increasing the Education Department's budget.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher Ed: Department of Education]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4012-2000Feb3.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4012-2000Feb3.html?nav=rss_education/columns/highered</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Civil rights monitors at the Education Department say Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) can go ahead with his plans to abolish affirmative action at the state's once-segregated colleges and attempt to preserve campus diversity by considering the high school class rank and social backgrounds of applicants, instead of their race and ethnicity.]]></description><author> Kenneth J. Cooper</author></item></channel></rss>