Florida NRT scores
Today, the Florida Department of Education released the scores from this spring’s norm-referenced testing in reading and math. The basic story: nothing clear. Some scores went up slightly in terms of percentile rank, some went down, and a number stayed about the same. The spin from the department is that the state’s percentile rank is […]
Graduation news
Several items of note related to high school graduation: Yesterday, the Texas House of Representatives initially approved the elimination of the 22-year-old requirement that high school graduates pass a state exam. The state senate’s proposal would replace the generic achievement tests with end-of-course exams. The House proposal faces another vote today. (My personal prediction: whether […]
Iran arrests Haleh Esfandiari
Human Rights Watch is reporting the detention of the head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’s Middle East program. She went to Iran to visit her mother and had her passports robbed shortly before she was to return, subjected to questioning when she asked for replacement travel documents, and then arrested a week […]
Mis-Remembering Title IX
The debate over the 2005 reinterpretation of college athletic applications of Title IX tends to avoid acknowledging the truth: the higher-ed athletic application of Title IX is only one part of what Title IX’s prohibition on gender discrimination touched, and it’s probably the least important large chunk of Title IX’s effects. In the decade before Title […]
Dorn silent on EPE grad rate database
No, I’m not, really, or it’s just a long caesura that I’m taking before looking closely at EPE’s Swanson-rate database, though the Washington Post has clearly gone ahead without me (which they’d do anyway, deadline-obeying group of journalists that they are).Yes, I’ll look at their figures on Detroit, to see if EPE has corrected last year’s obvious […]