It’s graduation week!
One more belated entry in the grad-rate report sweepstakes: the National School Board Association‘s Center for Public Education guide on graduation rates, released yesterday. (Hat tip: Andrew Rotherham.) Sometime overnight, my brain convinced me that this slew of reports was distributed over two weeks, not one. But it really has been just one week. And […]
Migration and graduation
When two major releases in two weeks highlight graduation measures in the press, it’s time to kick the writing of my paper on migration and graduation into high gear. The book MS will wait. I need to read one revised paper for the journal today, and take my son to a music lesson, but other […]
Mishel on Swanson
In corerspondence, Larry Mishel sent me material over the last few days. With his permission, I am posting his material below. In the meantime, of course, the USDOE put out its report today on the “Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate”, which is also based on CCD figures (hat tip: Andrew Rotherham). Of those, the numbers for […]
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 […]
Theo Bell, RIP
By Sherman Dorn on June 22, 2006
Former Pittsburgh Steeler and Tampa Bay Buccaneer Theo Bell died yesterday after a long battle with kidney disease. I knew him from my brief involvement with a local GEAR UP project a few years ago. Some years after leaving the NFL in 1985, he earned a masters and devoted his time to following kids in […]
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