Claudio Sanchez says “HLM”
Todays’ the day that NPR education reporter Claudio Sanchez said hierarchical linear modeling on air. This story was really about the public brouhaha over the did-she-or-didn’t-she-downplay-the-study controversy on the public/private analysis of NAEP, but it’s nice for the phrase to be out in public. Maybe this means that Sanchez will report on Jenny D.‘s dissertation? […]
More on the politics of thresholds
Just a few days after I wrote about cut scores or thresholds, uber-conservative Charles Murray criticizes NCLB for relying on them for proficiency labels (subscription required), accountability nihilist Susan Ohanian praises him, and Ford Foundation staffer Michael Petrilli talks back at Murray. (Hat tip: Andrew Rotherham.) Update: Manhattan Institute’s Jay Greene and Marcus Winters have […]
Lightning education politics analysis
Two items across the transom today, with a brief response each before my son kicks me off the computer to play a MUD (or is it a MOO?): Yesterday’s Title I Online article on NCLB politics seems mostly on target, as AFT’s NCLBlog and Andrew Rotherham point out. There are several dynamics interfering (in the […]
Quick work…
I did get in at least one letter to a MS’s authors before leaving for Ocala. Have fun and don’t get into too much trouble while I’m away! More tomorrow…
Inefficient but necessary journal work today
I’ve mostly prepped the next article to appear at EPAA—I am waiting to hear back on a few things—and am now on the one for early August. There are the usual tedious issues, and it’s taking a little more time than I expected (or maybe my brain is being inefficient today and needing frequent breaks […]