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Quasicohort and period measures are weak proxies for the new federal graduation rate
If you were wondering where I was going last week with the release of Florida graduation rates using the new federal definition, it’s this: an analysis of proxy high school graduation measures. It’s short, but I wanted to make it available quickly both here and on the Social Science Research Network because the point is sobering: all […]
Data to explore implementation of federal graduation rate definition
Florida has released some data on high school graduation rates, using the new federal definition that requires high schools to be responsible for dropouts who immediately enroll in GED programs (previously, those dropouts were deleted from the state’s official longitudinal rate which had been following 9th graders through graduation or attrition). This data provide an […]
Are the large predators hanging around Florida charter schools reptiles or humans?
Over the past few months, reporter for weekly Broward/Palm Beach New Times Lisa Rab has been uncovering all sorts of unsavory details about charter schools run by Mavericks in Education, starting with a long feature at the end of December asking how Mavericks was profiting from poor children in South Florida and how Joe Biden’s […]
Education politics in Florida
A recent Tampa Bay Times ((That new name still feels so wrong.)) wonderful story on the politics of education in Florida somehow squeezed into a few column inches the various topics required: legislative arrogance, regional parochialism, the public interest in higher education, the jobs connections of legislators in higher ed, and the occasional twinges of regret (such […]
Penn State is not University of Central Florida, and other tuition notes
The comments on my messy neoliberalism post are focusing on Kevin Carey’s testimony at the affordability hearing this week. Since Carey is usually much more careful in distinguishing between well-endowed private colleges and universities, tuition-driven privates, flagship publics, regional publics, and community colleges, the following passage astonished me: There is no doubt that colleges have […]