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Reporters do hard work: School consolidation isn’t the golden goose
Kudos to Scott Elliott and William Hershey for doing their homework for yesterday’s article on school Consolidation: Savings may be fleeting in the Dayton Daily News. The article was about budgets, but there is also some nice research on The Influence of Scale on School Performance by Bob Bickel and Craig Howley from 1998 in Education Policy Analysis Archives.
One more study of accountability using aggregate NAEP scores
Yesterday, EPAA published Relationships between High-Stakes Testing Policies and Student Achievement after Controlling for Demographic Factors in Aggregated Data, by Gregory J. Marchant, Sharon E. Paulson, and Adam Shunk of Ball State University. Its conclusions: The few relationships between high-stakes testing and achievement or improvement in reading, writing, or science tended to appear only when […]
One small task for an editor, and one article waiting for a tiny thing
It took me about a day and a half to scrounge together enough time to whip the next article into shape. When you see it, you’ll understand: more than 20 tables. The authors did a very nice job of getting the tables about 90% of the way, but I’m finicky on some things. But that’s […]
An editor’s joys include organized authors
The next article going up at Education Policy Analysis Archives (early in the week) came to me almost perfectly prepared (in terms of the post-acceptance process). Given my crazy week, this counts as a mechiah. (See an online Yiddish reference source such as this glossary if you don’t know what it means.) Of course, the readers should […]
Smooth work satisfies
Took a little bit of time to go out of the house to ChainCafé this afternoon to finish preparing an EPAA article for this week. Smooth… a few minor editorial changes, then the usual format issues (change hyphens to en-dashes where needed, expand the italicized text a bit) and send it off to the author […]