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Sketching a course 6
Habits and experienceToday I’m trying desperately to finish a paper that is far too late. Part of the delay is the craziness that is my professional and union life, but another part is that I am delving into two subjects that I have not been diligent in keeping up with. I am keenly interested in […]
Silence on AT&T Aspire an “Ed in ’08” parallel?
Is it my imagination, or has there been a deafening silence in both news outlets and the blogosphere after the AT&T Foundation’s announcement Wednesday of a $100 Million Dropout Prevention Program? I wrote about the initiative Thursday, but given the lead-in publicity (the America’s Promise report with Ed Week about low graduation rates?), I expected […]
$100 million… how will it be used?
Looking at today’s New York Times story on AT&T Aspire, the $100 million effort to reduce dropping out. In reality, $100 million is a visible splash and not chump change, but it’s a small amount compared to all the money spent on high schools every year. That effort to get a visible splash to serve […]
Organizational psychosis?
Yesterday’s New York Times article on ‘credit recovery’ puts the Bloomberg-Klein years in New York in perspective, as one Manhattan principal explains: I think that credit recovery and the related topic independent study is in lots of ways the dirty little secret of high schools. There’s very little oversight and there are very few standards. […]
A dozen questions for an official graduation rate
When the OMB clears the draft regs on counting dropouts, we can expect another wave of stories on graduation rates and what they all mean. Sharp reporters and other observers will ask the following questions of the draft regs: Does the definition of graduation include or exclude non-standard completion categories such as GEDs and “certificates […]