Details count for graduation rates
You ever realize belatedly that you should have paid more attention to something when you were distracted? I’m definitely getting that feeling today, as I’ve been working on projects that don’t require the data-that-with-luck-is-in-recovery from the hard disk crash Thursday morning. One of those is an article manuscript that will be up at Education Policy […]
New ed policy journal
Congrats to David Figlio and David Monk for the first two issues of Education Finance and Policy, which both became available online over the past month.
Paper malaprop
Maybe I’m too tired, but I had to laugh at the misspelling of a 1980 article’s title: Myra Strober and David Tyack’s Why Do Women Teach and Men Mange? I’ll admit I’m getting itchy just thinking about it.
65 Percent and charter schools
Just a thought after reading a story on high profit margins of so-called EMOs (private companies that manage charter schools or public schools under contracts): What would the 65-percent proposal do to private management of schools? The great irony of Florida Governor Bush’s attempt to resurrect vouchers in Florida is that attaching the requirement that […]
Disk crash
By Sherman Dorn on April 13, 2006
It’s not a good thing when my work laptop wouldn’t load because of a corrupted systems folder. It’s probably a good thing that I know what to do at this point (download the latest version of Knoppix, transfer essential files, and then turn the laptop over to our college computer gurus), but this is the […]
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