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 […]
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 […]