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Gradu[r]ated
So U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Department Will Move to a Uniform Graduation Rate, Require Disaggregation of Data (the true title of the press release today announcing imminent-but-not-published draft regs defining a graduation rate and only a few words away from the type of book title that would cure almost any insomnia). And […]
AERA brief note
I’m in the Delta terminal of JFK, waiting to go home to Tampa. Presented. Listened. Laughed. Bought things in both the AERA exhibit hall and also the Juliiard School bookstore (which was having a 30%-off sale on a bunch of CDs). I will be blogging later this week on a NYC nutty policy and on […]
Florida ed policy and politics
The legislative session is in full swing (or a more colorful noun), and a bunch of things are in the air either in Tallahassee or elsewhere: 1. Both houses of the state legislature are considering bills to change the role of state testing (FCAT), either by adding other information to the labeling of high schools […]
Grad rates of the fanciful and research kind
While Erin Dillon and Inside Higher Ed are creating mash-ups of the NCAA hoops brackets and college graduation rates, I’m working on reframing the CPI when I can’t handle fighting fires any more, except this evening I’m working with the 2900 counties in the U.S. with upper-grades enrollments reported for 2001-02 through 2005-06 and regular […]
A rescue for Swanson’s CPI?
(Note: I’ve changed a few things in the first graph, and someone pointed out to me that I had fallen prey to one of the many Excel glitches, but I’ll show the changes below…) I’ve written informally here on graduation measures, expressing my concern about Chris Swanson’s Cumulative Promotion Index, known among the grad-rate numerati […]