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D***ed autocorrect by Edweek… / Rick Hess’s comment re AERA
I hate sock puppetry, and since Edweek’s server would not let me add a display name to my account this morning, it is not clear on the website that I am the author of the first response to Rick Hess’s call for public defunding of AERA. I am “USER_768949.” ((Who is USER_1??)) Hess is arguing that […]
How to manipulate data and figures
On occasion, students and reporters ask me what makes me trust or distrust folks who claim to be education researchers, and it’s a harder question to answer than one might think. As an historian with some quantitative training, I am eclectic on methods–I have no purity test other than “the evidence and reasoning have to […]
iBooks Author: a tool for testing proofs of concept?
Yesterday morning, Rick Perry quit the presidential race and endorsed iBooks Author. Er, no, something else. Oh, yes: Apple unveiled the iBooks Author program that is an easier (if not frictionless) tool for creating ebooks for iBooks, and (not coincidentally), partnerships with the big three text publishers to sell more stuff to schools. There are […]
When reporters use (s)extrapolation as sound bites
Earlier today on Twitter, Annie Lowrey and I had a brief exchange (or an exchange of tweets) about the column inches she used for the Hanushek-like extrapolation in Friday’s New York Time story on the Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff value-added measure paper. ((If you are curious about my substantive views of the paper, see my […]
On a change at USF Polytechnic
President X may need to leave for the college-community relationship to be what her or his lip service has claimed is the ideal… because the reality of that has to exist on campus, not just in the head of President X. What I wrote a short while ago in Dead administration walking and the higher […]