Midterm Commandments
Following Miriam Burstein, I’ll see how many commandments I need to etch in stone for my students at midterm time:
Age-specific graduation rates
After too many months, I’ve finally carved out a few hours to play with the data Florida’s DOE sent me, a collection of individual-level data on enrollment, age, grade level, sex, race/ethnicity, lunch status, and withdrawal code (including different types of diplomas). The data isn’t clean (especially when looking at the birth years), but it’s […]
Productivity in the midst of chaos
By Sherman Dorn on October 6, 2005
After my car adventure yesterday (what? a link to my personal blog? oh, well—the secret’s out for all 1.273510… readers), it turns out I wasn’t half-bad in the productivity department. I sent out a rejection notice (which required piecing together a picture from five reviews), loaded the new version of SAS on my work laptop, […]
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