Thank you, Steven Ruggles
Sometimes, there are ways to conduct research that would be impossible without the internet. In the last few days, I’ve culled key data sets to get a better picture of 20th century graduation and educational attainment than I was able to put in Creating the Dropout (1996), from a collected set of data that one […]
Religion and the public sphere
In Florida, Pasco County Commissioners may have stumbled into a reasonable solution on religious expressions in public places: an open forum where everyone’s expression is welcome.
Defensive Education
This entry is an experimental education commentary delivered over the web.
First reviews
Yesterday, Gene Glass e-mailed me that he’d received reviews on the last of his manuscript backlog for Education Policy Analysis Archives.. So I sent the first manuscript I’d received out for review in the evening. (I’d prepared a few manuscripts so I could send them out during finals, while I’m madly grading—with “madly” referring to […]
Will the international debates ever be Finnish’d?
By Sherman Dorn on December 7, 2004
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD’)s Programme for International Student Assessment just released Problem Solving for Tomorrow’s World – First Measures of Cross Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003. According to the latest international comparison, the highest-achieving 15-year-olds in problem-focused math appear to be those from the western rim of the Pacific and Finland. […]
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