Article manuscript on graduation and migration drafted
Well, the draft is done. Time to go through it with a fine-toothed comb for grammatical kerfluffles, confusing terms and symbols, and citation errors. Right now, the conclusions are fairly strong: you can’t get accurate graduation rates without accurate information about migration. And that means you just can’t have accurate graduation rates at the school […]
Online encyclopedias, but not wikis
Scott McLemee has joined Sage Storrs, Jeremy Boggs, Alun Salt, and Roy Rosenzweig in discussing both how to teach students how to read Wikipedia skeptically and also how to colonize Wikipedia and other open-source secondary materials. I will leave the teaching angle alone for the moment and head directly to the question of what we […]
Grant applications, one rejection and one improvement
This is not only the week of graduation-rate reports, it’s also the week of receiving news on two grant applications. The short precís sent to the U.S. Department of Education’s unsolicited research competition was rejected (i.e., they didn’t want a full proposal), and unfortunately a review of the recommended regular competition for the next fiscal […]
It’s the idea, stupid, not the network
And this morning, I get to combine two major topics of this blog, academic freedom and (mostly K-12) education policy, with the following message: a social network is not a conspiracy, but it can embody a worldview.
The decline of a profession
Well, here comes another article talking about the attrition from the profession and the waste of so-called professional education. Yep. 40% attrition within 4 years, 60% within 6 years. One wonders if we shouldn’t close the doors of the ignoble preparatory institutions and throw away the key. We might even open up the profession to […]