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 […]
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 […]
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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