Ed Week grad rates: GIGO for Detroit
Paul Gazzerro of S&P’s School Matters data compilation service thought I was wrong in asserting that the major problem with the Ed Week Detroit graduation “rate” for 2003 was not accounting for migration. True, I used all the enrollment data from all of PK-12, not just high school,* but Gazzerro then made the error of […]
Work with the teachers you have
[Note: A slightly longer version of this is at the group blog The Wall of Education, where I’m a participant.] Is there anyone else who just doesn’t understand Kevin Carey’s blog entry at the end of last month? It included a reasonable caveat that current research on teacher effectiveness had low R-square figures and high […]
Graduation rates, redux
Today, Education Week published Chris Swanson’s new round of estimates of graduation. Lawrence Mishel also posted a new set of comments in a discussion of rates that’s now considerably longer than the original entry. Andrew Rotherham points to my own state, Florida (which according to Swanson ranks as fifth worst), and Ron Matus’s quick story […]
The leisurely pace of editing
I spent over half of my worktime today doing editing stuff—sending out most of the disposition e-mails to authors I owed (still have two or three left for tomorrow) and seeing if the new article is up yet (it is, but I’m too tired to vet an e-mail announcement, so that’s tomorrow’s first task). Reading […]
Full-time in the summer
By Sherman Dorn on June 21, 2006
No new writing commitments for me for about two or three years. I’m working full time right now, without being paid, given the book I’m trying to write, a few grants I’d like to submit this summer, some other research, the journal, etc. I realized this morning as I was resting (my leg is still […]
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