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Hoping the good news on grad rates is true
The wires are burning up this morning with the America's Promise Alliance Building a Grad Nation report, which asserts a small rise in high school graduation between 2003 and 2008. The John Hopkins research center the Powell group has allied itself with is the one that successfully got reporters to repeat the term "dropout factory" […]
One study is one study is one study, no matter how well designed
I was offered the chance to look at the Nashville merit-pay study in advance, under embargoed conditions, but my life has been crazy and I thought it was unfair to accept the offer unless I was fairly sure I could spend the time to read and blog about it in depth. So, in lieu of careful analysis, […]
Students don’t exit on inflatable slides
Despite all the jokes this week about Steven Slater, there’s something important about his exit from his flight-attendant job: he left the way he dreamed. Not gracefully, and not with a happy ending, but with the drama he may have imagined. In many ways, Slater’s exit is close to the stereotype of the high school […]
And Bill Brass would run through the streets of Edinburgh shouting “Eureqa!”
If you are a social scientist and haven’t checked out Eureqa, you should spend a few hours playing with it in the next few months, because it’s entirely different from your prior experiences with statistical software. Featured in a Wired article last month, Download Your Own Robot Scientist, Eureqa is not a scientist but a […]
Race to the Top: review, revise, redux
I am in California this weekend for the Social Science History Association annual meeting, where we get to talk about Maris Vinovskis’s book on the last quarter century of school reform, and since one of my copanelists Saturday morning is Jennifer Jennings, I finally get to meet the sociologist-formerly-known-as-Eduwonkette in person, face to face. Because […]