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Graduation-rate report, just out, is already obsolete…
Seastrom et al.’s technical report on graduation rates, volume 1, was just released this week. (Hat tip: edspresso.) Kudos to the authors on it. And, unusual for an area in my research expertise, it’s already out of date. Warren’s 2005 paper was released while the report was in peer review and was addressed briefly in […]
Comparative studies in special education: a brain-bursting exercise
This evening, I’m finishing up my reading and note-taking on non-U.S. history of special education placement for a review article on inclusion. I’m writing a small section, and I know it would come to this: someone who knows just about the U.S. (me!) has to search for and read the secondary literature on comparative perspectives. And […]
PAA poster
I’ve gone and committed a poster for my presentation next week at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. I decided to create a generic explanation for the poster (which is 5×3′) and then smaller side panels for more details, the examples, and references. It’s my first use of the copy shop in […]
Bérubé on theory
Why I read Michael Bérubé’s blog: items like today’s, which discusses ostraninie (a Russian term which I’ve heard translated as “technique of the naive observer”) as a starting point for the last n decades of literary criticism and broader theory. One pithy bit: When theory works—when it leads you to see things about texts and […]