About Kevin Carey:
Kevin Carey is an American higher education writer and policy analyst. He is serving as Director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. He teaches education policy at Johns Hopkins University, is guest editor of the annual Washington Monthly College Guide, and is a monthly columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been described by New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt as “one of the sharpest higher education experts out there” and by Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews as “the best higher education writer in the country.”