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Sector Spotlight
Report Release: Reforming Teacher Pensions for a Changing Work Force
New Education Sector report examines teacher pensions and details the problems facing current state pension programs.
Sport or Not? A Question for the Courts
Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva interviewed by the New York Times on Title IX.
Teachers Unions as Agents of Reform
Brad Jupp, an architect of Denver's landmark performance-based teacher pay system, ProComp, is an outspoken advocate of both labor organizing and quality education for disadvantaged kids. In this interview, Jupp talks about ProComp, his views on teacher unionism, and the future of the teaching profession.
Education Sector Welcomes Three New Board Members
Education Sector's board of directors names three prominent leaders in the fields of education and journalism to the board: David W. Breneman, Richard Lee Colvin, and Peter McWalters.
For-profit colleges: Do they shortchange students?
Policy Director Kevin Carey comments on a recent Senate HELP Committee hearing on for-profit colleges.
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Kevin Carey
- Contact Email:
- kcarey@educationsector.org
- Position:
- Policy Director
Kevin Carey is Education Sector's policy director. He manages the organization's policy team and oversees policy development in K–12 and higher education. Carey has published articles in magazines including Washington Monthly, The New Republic, The American Prospect, Democracy, and Newsweek Online, as well as op-eds in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, InsideHigherEd and New York Daily News. He writes a monthly column for the Chronicle of Higher Education and serves as guest editor of Washington Monthly's annual college issue. His writing was anthologized in Best American Legal Writing 2009.
Carey's research at Education Sector includes higher education reform, improving college graduation rates, college rankings, community colleges, and the federal No Child Left Behind Act. He regularly contributes to The Quick and the ED and Brainstorm blogs and provides expert commentary for media outlets including, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS Frontline, and National Public Radio. He also teaches education policy at Johns Hopkins University.
Previously, Carey was director of policy research for The Education Trust, an advocate of closing the educational achievement gap for low-income and minority children, and a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which works to help low- and moderate-income families. From 1999 to 2001, Carey 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. He also served as a senior analyst for the Indiana Senate Finance Committee, writing legislation and advising the Senate Democratic caucus.
Carey holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Binghamton University and a master of public administration from Ohio State University. He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, D.C.