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Hurrah for keeping notes!

I unearthed my dissertation notes and copies of archival materials from 1990 and 1991 and discovered that—as I had hoped—I had copied student enrollment information from Atlanta and New York City schools from the mid-20th century. I’m not sure if it has all the information necessary to calculate student net flows, but I can hope!

Getting back to reading

Finished one batch of short papers yesterday for the undergraduate class—had graded it the prior week (which is easy, as it’s pass/fail, and grading is much harder than providing comments) and had gotten bogged down in a number of things while trying to provide comments. Then I got through two batches of quiz answers for […]

Fixed code!

Found out what was wrong with the collapsing archive list tip from Scriptygoddess: nothing! I had forgotten to add a code in one file to make sure that the server interpreted the PHP code in the template. But you should now see a collapsed (and expandable) list of months on the left. I wonder if […]

HEC goes public

After a brief correspondence with someone from H-Net working on web support for sites, I’ve decided to take the history-of-education-and-childhood site public. It’s just been sitting for a month, and so I tweaked the main index’s template and announced it. I wish I could get it to run on a subdomain, but I can’t, and […]

Grant proposal drafted

The proposal for NIH on indirect measures of dropping out is drafted. Whew! Now to proof it until there are no errors left.