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How you can become an important economist of education: speed past the disruption metaphor
I’ve read the new Rick Hess-Michael Horn edited volume, Private Enterprise and Public Education, and most of the chapters in earlier versions for the Andrew Kelly-Kevin Carey anthology, Stretching the Higher Education Dollar. Given my disappointment over the more general “here’s where the market drives things so don’t harsh or hate so much” chapters, I’ve been trying […]
Sins of presentation: False precision and Just-So Stories of heterogeneity
Most real-world studies of education are messy. Even when you can run a quasi-experimental or even pure randomized controlled trial, life can interfere with research designs. How one handles that messiness is an important factor in how I tend to read studies and evaluate them. That may not be fair, but an attempt to hide […]
International workshop for free (or, rather, for time)
This weekend, Christian Ydesen (Aalborg University) and I hosted a small workshop on the comparative history of school accountability. We had six papers written by eight scholars from three time zones in two hemispheres. I’m excited by the subject of the papers — all told, the papers discussed school accountability in some detail in six […]
Seattle teachers and the administrative politics of formative assessment
This week, the expanding protest of teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School has become a topic of national debate. It is difficult to parse out the issues because the tactics of the teachers at Garfield are relatively narrow but resonate with all sorts of larger issues around assessment.
Three books on heterodox quant: Bayes, econometrics, and demography
One of my resolutions this year is to engage in a long-term effort to upgrade my quantitative skills, as I’m a mid-career historian with some quantitative skills, of the type that inherently grow stale (along with my patience with SAS). I thought I’d share my thoughts about a few books, two of which I’m in […]