Kevin Carey
@kevincarey1
VP, Education & Work, New America. Writes about education for the New York Times, Atlantic, Vox, etc. I’ve made my mind a sunless space.
The document is long because it's a *book* please keep students a light-year away from this evil nonsense.
3/ If you've ever wondered what the absolute rock-bottom of academic labor might look like at an accredited American institutions of higher education, well:
A no-lose proposition -- you either get a 20% gain on your investment or have one of the best days of your life.
The @washingtonpost.com can’t even write accurate headlines over the wire service stories in its fake Sports section. Sad.
Call me old-fashioned but I don’t think the snow symbol and “79 degrees” should appear in the same six-day weather forecast
Man drops out of college, says incredibly dumb and incoherent thing, wonders why people need to go to college. www.404media.co/whats-the-po...
Difference between Mikaela Shiffrin and the silver medalist: 1.50 seconds. Difference between the silver medalist and the 17th-fastest skier: 1.59 seconds.
The Washington Post, formerly a newspaper, reprinted a story in the Metro section today that originally ran last November, with no explanation. Bizarre and sad behavior.
"Sorry something went wrong and we couldn't cancel my subscription" what went wrong is your newspaper went to hell and I'm not buying it anymore
So they succeeded by, among other things, investing in Pre-K? In other words, giving more funding to schools?
I'm glad the Times is reporting out Mississippi's success but this is such an odd construction. Schools don't focus on school funding -- they receive it. And there's no practical or conceptual tradeoff between focusing on funding vs. academics! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Weird how all the people who immediately said "this is very obviously a hard-right project underneath a millimeter-thick veneer of incoherent free speech rhetoric" were right all along. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I didn’t have space to get it into it in my review, but some of the details in “Miracle Children” about Mike Landry and the Ivy League admissions system are just…
InsideHigherEd wisely hired @bakerdphd.bsky.social to write a new column and the first one is a banger www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
TLDR, it's good, and the parts about higher education admissions are devastating.
The White House is now officially blaming the Capitol Police for creating the violent mob that officers heroically defended members of Congress, and American democracy, against. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/