Klocek defamation suit
Former Depaul University adjunct Thomas Klocek has filed a defamation lawsuit against DePaul. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education‘s David French comments on the lawsuit on FIRE’s blog. As I’ve noted before, the key issue here is not that DePaul fired Klocek without due process (since adjuncts have few procedural rights at universities—whether they should […]
Another professor’s plagiarism response
Mel, of In Favor of Thinking, has feelings very much like mine in response to plagiarism.
Data labeling trick in Excel
If you’ve wanted to label individual labels in Excel charts with extra data, there have typically been the option to create bubble charts, where the diameter of the bubble corresponds with a third variable. But what if the extra data is text (e.g., states in a national analysis). Check out Microsoft’s macro to label data […]
Florida school grades
Last week, the Florida Department of Education released its assignment of letter grades to Florida schools. There’s plenty of discussion in Florida’s newspapers about various things, but I don’t think anyone has looked at the grades vis-a-vis the hardest-hit counties from last fall’s hurricanes. Here’s what I noticed:
Acceptance statistics
In the six and a half months since I’ve been editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives, I’ve received 90 manuscripts (excluding a few withdrawals from authors who decided to resubmit a MS in Spanish to the journal). Here is the disposition: 7 accepted 9 revise-and-resubmit requests 14 rejected after reviews 37 manuscripts rejected before reviews […]