The Daily Report Card: College Costs In Crosshairs, Pushing & Shoving, ‘Boring’ Bill Advances

Obama to target rising college tuition costs – AP “President Barack Obama will announce Friday a plan to shift some federal dollars away from colleges and universities that don’t control tuition costs and new competitions in higher education to encourage efficiency as part of an effort to contain soaring college costs.” (google.com)

I Just Don’t Know… – River Deep, Mountain High A Teach for America instructor: “I’m just tired of being beaten down by social forces of highly concentrated poverty.” (tonybonthemic.teachforus.org)

House approves multiple student count dates – Times of NWI The Boring School Finance Bill That Could Change Everything now moves to the Senate. (nwitimes.com)

Teach this, not that – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Karen Francisco: “The school reform movement makes for some strange bedfellows but it also puts those bedfellows at odds, on occasion.” (journalgazette.net)

Washington insiders favor ESEA flexibility in theory but not in reality – Flypaper Mike Petrilli: ‘When push comes to shove… many of the players discover that they don’t like [NCLB waivers] after all.’ (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)