Newmark's Door

"Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down"

According to this Crimson article the average GPA at Harvard was 3.72 in 2019 and 3.8 in 2022. (Compared to 3.05 in 1975 and 2.55 in 1950.)

"Need-Blind: Why Harvard Hardly Accepts Low-Income Students"

"But what little data we have is staggering: Analysis by Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty ’00 found that 67 percent of Harvard undergraduates come from the top 20 percent of the income distribution. Just 4.5 percent, meanwhile, come from the bottom 20 percent." (Link via Marginal Revolution.)

"The Old School Reformer's Case for Privatizing Education"

Richard Hanania attempts a difficult lift.

Yet I would go a step further, and argue that working towards privatization makes sense from a moderate and center-left perspective as well, especially for the kinds of people who still pine for Obama-era reforms and think they weren’t tried hard enough.

"Great News for Female Academics!"

But . . . but . . . I was informed we are living in an misogynist male patriarchy.

"An end to the reading wars? More US schools embrace phonics"

If true, good. (Too bad it only took about 60 years.)

"How Harvard Careerism Killed the Classroom"

I didn't need the ideological slant, but the data were interesting. The share going to consulting and finance and the career choice by parental income graphics were particularly interesting.

"Student with 2 published books, 4.2 GPA and 1560 SAT score rejected by Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton"

What I would tell any high school student discouraged by rejection from an "elite" university: for even the very best students it's a crapshoot. (This student was accepted at Stanford, NYU, and West Point.)

"Will school choice destroy the Democratic Party?"

Piece argues that in addition to the large educational benefits of school choice, choice also has the big benefit of lessening the power of teachers' unions.

"Woke school district in shambles over petty PC obsessions"

Story of a whole new meaning for "petty".

"The School Choice Movement's Greatest Saleswoman"

Not who I thought it would be but it makes sense.