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Florida’s increasing high school graduation rate
As the Times, the Orlando Sentinel and other papers are reporting, the high school graduation rate for Florida’s public schools climbed by about 4% in 2011-12 from the (federally-defined) graduation rate reported for 2010, from 71% to 75% (rounding up in each case). More importantly, this is a substantial leap from the (federally-defined) graduation rate in 2006-07 […]
Dude, where’s my psychohistory?
In a feature story for Nature at the beginning of the month, Laura Spinney writes about the latest generation of academics hoping to quantify historical patterns and make universal claims about “cliodynamics,” as U Conn’s Peter Turchin hopes to call his work. We’ve seen this movie before as quantitative social science history in the 1960s, cliometrics in the […]
Updated international attainment motion chart
For the Comparative and International Education Society meeting in Puerto Rico this month: Source: Minnesota Population Center, International Public Use Microdata Sample. The variable of interest is educational attainment (for those aged 25-29 at the time of an individual country’s census). In a few cases, I recalculated attainment based on my disagreement with the […]
Why are these data different from all other data?
I am the youngest of five children, so I get to ask questions today. ((For those reading this entry months or years later and don’t have the skills to translate between calendars on the fly, it’s the first day of Passover, and traditionally asking the four questions is the privilege/obligation of the young.)) Sara Goldrick-Rab […]
America’s Promise 2012 report relies on problematic graduation measure… for the last time?
This year’s America’s Promise report on high school graduation rates has just been released, and according to the description on p. 23, the non-profit is using the Adjusted Freshman Graduation Rate, which has a moderate relationship at best to the new federal adjusted-cohort rate, at least using Florida data. A little better is the Johns […]