Looks like CEP, much-maligned in the edublogoshpere, will be hosting the debate on graduation rates.  Glad a reputable organization (IMHO) heeded the call for a debate. Not that we are taking credit for the event--don't get your boxers in a bunch Eduwonk (he's the one with the fetish), CEP is not bought and paid for by the AFT.  But come to think of it, who pays Jay Greene's salary . . .?

Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, will present the new findings of his study on dropouts. Jay P. Greene, endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas and a Manhattan Institute senior fellow will comment on the findings. Jack Jennings, president and CEO of CEP, will moderate.

The debate will focus on the discrepancy between Jay P. Greene’s dropout figures, which employ U.S. Department of Education diploma and enrollment data, and Lawrence Mishel’s analysis which also includes household and student longitudinal surveys.