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Kevin Carey on Washington Journal
Policy Director Kevin Carey appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to talk about the education proposals put forth during President Obama's State of the Union address.
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Miller on Federal Student Loan Changes
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Kevin Carey
- Contact Email:
- kcarey@educationsector.org
- Position:
- Policy Director
Carey is Education Sector's policy director. Carey came to the organization in September 2005. In addition to managing Education Sector's policy team, he regularly contributes to the "Quick and the Ed" blog, and has published Education Sector reports on topics including a blueprint for a new system of college rankings, how states inflate educational progress under NCLB, and improving minority college graduation rates. He has published magazine articles and op-eds in publications including Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, Phi Delta Kappan, Change, Education Week, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, and Christian Science Monitor. He also writes a monthly column on higher education policy for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
In 1995, Carey worked as an education finance analyst for the state of Indiana where he developed a new formula for setting local property taxes and distributing state education aid. He subsequently served as a senior analyst for the Indiana Senate Finance Committee, writing legislation and advising the Democratic caucus on fiscal policy. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Indiana's Assistant State Budget Director for Education, where he advised the governor on finance and policy issues in K–12 and higher education.
In 2001, Carey moved to Washington D.C., and became an analyst for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit research organization focused on policies that serve low- and moderate-income families. There he published new research on state poverty-based education funding programs. Carey subsequently worked at The Education Trust, where he was director of policy research. He wrote articles and publication on topics including: implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act; "value-added" measure of teacher effectiveness; state education funding disparities; using state education data systems to analyze minority participation in science and mathematics; improving the distribution of quality teachers to low-income and minority students; and increasing college graduation rates. He also designed and implemented the www.collegeresults.org graduation rate Web site.
Carey holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Binghamton University and a Master of Public Administration from Ohio State University.