More net-flow SAS files
More test SAS files for state-level net flow from North Carolina in 2000-01, Massachusetts in 2000-01, and Massachusetts from the mid-1990s. As I’ve seen before I got the algorithm right, there’s a significant downtick for Mass. 2000-01 for 10th grade (or a higher-magnitude negative flow). You need several years of data after that point to […]
The ‘multiculturalism’/’diversity’ tantrum
At least once a semester, at least one of my colleagues or I hear the following complaint from a student: “I’ve heard enough about diversity and multiculturalism!! Why can’t we just treat each other as human beings?” I’d hazard a guess that anyone who’s taught a social-foundations course in education or other classes where this […]
When you don’t have all grades…
One more idea: what to do with districts that aren’t unified—do not have students in all grades? There are bunches of districts in Texas and Massachusetts, for example, that have only elementary or only secondary grades. The iterative process for estimating student net flows relies on the whole grade span in two different ways—you need […]
Net-flow SAS test files
After talking with my colleague John Ferron, I’ve tried to use the SAS DATA step to calculate the net-flow rates and then to vary the retention-rate estimates randomly around the official figures, to see how that changes the results.
Classroom use at USF
By Sherman Dorn on July 15, 2004
Today, the Oracle, USF’s student newspaper, printed a guest column I sent a few days ago. The electronic version is cleaner than the column that appeared on p. 5 of the printed version (the link which will only show the relevant issue in PDF through mid-August 2004), but neither is precisely what I wrote:
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