Exam grading
And for the next week, almost everything goes overboard while I read student work. Yesterday I had a bunch of meetings, and then the new laptop had some problems (a memory chip needed reseating), but after lunch it’s time to crack down and start reading the undergraduate exams with some discipline (of my mind).
Kentucky points the way
When I wrote “Alternatives for Florida’s Assessment and Accountability System” (available in
Simplify, simplify!
Today, I figured out how to simplify the explanation of the net-flow rate. It makes no real difference either in calculations or in the complexity of the spreadsheet, but it’ll reduce the difficulty of explaining it to non-demographers. Here’s the gist: the increase in enrollment for grades x on up between any two points in […]
Presentation next week
I was invited to give a presentation in Phoenix next week, on a topic of my choice. No, it’s not a job interview (or at least not that I’m aware of). Fortunately, I was intending to be in California anyway, and my brother Ron’s family is in Tempe, so this’ll be fine. I just need […]
The pledge case
By Sherman Dorn on April 11, 2004
Like many observers of the Supreme Court, I am assuming that the court will reverse the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and rule for the school district in Elk Grove v. Newdow. If it does so by accepting the argument that the words “under God” are a form of ceremonial deism, it will be accepting […]
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