KC Johnson, law profs, and intellectual diversity
Two stories in the last few days have popped up about intellectual diversity in higher ed. One is KC Johnson’s story in Inside Higher Ed and the other is a story in the New York Times describing a study of law professors’ political contributions. It’s the first week of classes and I’m still far behind […]
Dropout statistics in political use
Diane Cardwell’s story this morning in the New York Times discusses the political uses of graduation and dropout statistics in the New York City mayoral race. As is common, the use of educational statistics here implies normative judgment: a 44-percent graduation rate must be awful, according to Fernando Ferrer (one of the challengers of Bloomberg), […]