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When reporters use (s)extrapolation as sound bites
Earlier today on Twitter, Annie Lowrey and I had a brief exchange (or an exchange of tweets) about the column inches she used for the Hanushek-like extrapolation in Friday’s New York Time story on the Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff value-added measure paper. ((If you are curious about my substantive views of the paper, see my […]
Power and authority in oral history, public history, quantitative social history, and now digital history, …
Thus far, submitting a chapter for Writing History of the Digital Age has been one of the more engaging and enjoyable bits of writing and scholarly interaction I’ve had in almost a quarter century in my field. The public discussion (including comments by the peer reviewers for the press) has been productive from my perspective as an […]
Motion chart of international attainment patterns, 1960-2009
In approximately a month, I am presenting a paper on international attainment patterns at the History of Education Society annual meeting in Chicago. Below is a figure from the paper, a motion chart of attainment data for 25-29 year olds by level of schooling calculated from the harmonized attainment variable in the International Public Use […]
In-cell bar charts
CCPhysicist made some very good suggestions in response to Wednesday's chart of educational attainment, and I've had a few questions about how I produced it (in terms of the chart, not the basic pull-down of data from IPUMS and frequency tables). Before I get to CCPhysicist, there are two essential sources of inspiration for the chart: Population […]
How has school attainment varied across countries in the last 50 years?
Now that Valerie Strauss has called my field the unsexy academic arena of education history, albeit while trying to calm down those affected by "Ravitch Rage," I should evidently switch fields, maybe to something sexier like economics of education or even Fuller brush sales. But before I quit not only the field of the history […]