Graduation-rate report, just out, is already obsolete…
Seastrom et al.’s technical report on graduation rates, volume 1, was just released this week. (Hat tip: edspresso.) Kudos to the authors on it. And, unusual for an area in my research expertise, it’s already out of date. Warren’s 2005 paper was released while the report was in peer review and was addressed briefly in […]
Ooh ooh! Mr. Kotter Rotherham!
In responding to my earlier discussion of teacher certification debates, Eduwonk Andy Rotherham writes, “What other $450 billion dollar industry can’t give you a decent denominator on productivity?” I presume he meant “indicator” or “measure.” Oh, my. What a question. I’ll just give one answer (though it’s not as large an industry): management consulting. There […]
Comparative studies in special education: a brain-bursting exercise
This evening, I’m finishing up my reading and note-taking on non-U.S. history of special education placement for a review article on inclusion. I’m writing a small section, and I know it would come to this: someone who knows just about the U.S. (me!) has to search for and read the secondary literature on comparative perspectives. And […]
Why teaching isn’t like law or medicine
The teacher certification debate at edspresso this week is interesting, and Ed Sector staffer Kevin Carey lays out the best of the anti-certification arguments. Then out pops this: The fact that teacher certification is regulated by the government also makes it unduly subject to political pressures—one reason, I suspect, that the standards for entering the teaching […]
Your next faculty meeting
By Sherman Dorn on August 26, 2006
Profgrrrrl has an absolutely dead-on description of a common faculty meeting dialogue structure. It definitely brought a grin to my face this morning.
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