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(Effect) size matters
Nathan Yau is not Edward Tufte. Yau is a doctoral student in statistics. Tufte is a Yale professor emeritus. Yau’s list of his 5 best data visualization projects of 2008 has a common missing element (from four of the listed projects) that E.T. would pull tufts of hair out over: the images have no quantification. […]
Can reporters raise their game in writing about education research?
I know that I still owe readers the ultimate education platform and the big, hairy erratum I promised last month, but the issue of research vetting has popped up in the education blogule*, and it’s something I’ve been intending to discuss for some time, so it’s taking up my pre-10:30-am time today. In brief, Eduwonkette […]
Can we count graduation??
Ed Week has its annual graduation special issue online, Diplomas Count 2008. Joydeep Roy and Larry Mishel have a brand-new article out today criticizing Swanson’s measures as well as those of others, available at the ASU server or the epaa.info server for Education Policy Analysis Archives. (Disclosure: I’m the editor. And I’ve done some research […]
The ethics of expert mumbling
I started this entry a few days ago, when I wrote, “I probably should be doing something else,” and obviously I did. But now that I’m back for a few minutes, I want to think aloud (or in text) about policy hubris. I’ve been batting a book idea back and forth recently, based on the […]
College graduation
The new Ed Sector report by Kevin Carey, Graduation Rate Watch, summarizes some of the material available from the IPEDS 6-year graduation measures for four-year colleges and universities. The main point is that there are vast differences within different higher-ed sectors not only in 6-year graduation stats but also Black-White differences in graduation. He correctly […]