NAEP, NCLB, and hype
Today’s release of the latest 4th and 8th grade NAEP scores has brought a predictable flurry of attention focused on the tepid changes since NCLB. Quoted in the Washington Post article is Tom Loveless, pointing out that the trends look pretty similar whether you’re breaking it into the pre-2002 or post-2002 data. The immediate forecast […]
A contrarian definition of big social-science history
[Social Science History Association] Networks are encouraged to imagine the research program they would conduct with a multi-million dollar grant. (Full CFP.) … Big social-science history is interdisciplinary collaboration in history that can create, develop, or support a research agenda that would not be possible by researchers acting alone. Big social-science history should focus on collaboration and infrastructure that makes research possible. Big social-science history makes the tools and end results widely available to researchers and other readers worldwide…. None of these look like the “big social-science history” projects that were legends when I was in grad school.