Massachusetts and high-stakes accountability policies
I’ve had a few responses to my Shakespeare challenges, all from Massachusetts, which raises an important question for my challenge: When did Massachusetts policy become high stakes for schools in terms of resources (providing rewards to high-scoring schools or taking funds away from low-scoring schools) rather than for reputation (labeling), for organizational control (the threat […]
PAA conference handout
The PAA conference handout (PDF) is cryptic and dense, but it captures the methods side of what I’m doing right now. I don’t think it replaces the other attempts to measure graduation, in part because few states can produce age-based statistics at the moment. On the other hand, the explicit modeling can show the sensitivity […]
On narrowing the curriculum
While I’m still unable to get to sleep from caffeine (I promised students a batch of grades tomorrow in class), I thought I’d take a few minutes to wind down the growing spin story on the Center on Education Policy report on the 4th year of NCLB implementation. Now that Andrew Rotherham has kindly asked […]
The real entry on the conference
In case you were wondering, the last item was an April Fool’s joke. I saw my mom and the family of one of my sisters. The Population Association of America conference was great. While no one had the energy or concentration to vet my stuff in the poster session (gee, why wouldn’t people be able […]
Terrible conference
Well, I’m back in Tampa after a 14-hour journey that you really don’t want to know about. (Hint: Southwest shouldn’t ever try to fly to Cancun.) The Population Association of America was an awful conference where I didn’t learn anything, where everyone who visited my poster session ripped it to shreds, where there was no […]