Winning the Future

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama confused losing the future with winning it and, in the process, drew education into the fray.

rwebdb 02-February-2011

The project heads toward a release date and a welcome supplement to recent macro-level analysis of college costs that has received broad attention and some contentious disbelief.

Learning is Like Happiness

Somewhere Illich is beaming now.

rwebdb 20-January-2011

Institutional revenues for the early years of the postsecondary education time series now reside in rpeds.

rwebdb 19-January-2011

The rpeds time series now contains data on student charges.

rwebdb 18-January-2011

Progress report on the development of a postsecondary education time series, which now also has a tentative name.

rwebdb 29-December-2010

A new integrated data structure, additional flexibility, initial test results, and plans for continued development.

rwebdb 13-December-2010

Understanding something and knowing how to proceed can be two different things.

Not Today’s University

Words that stop me cold. Glimpses ever so fleeting. Of worlds that might be.

rwebdb 16-November-2010

The rwebdb data warehouse now contains 31 variables. Of these, 16 are new, including several pricing variables on undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees. The post also provides a peek ahead.