Jeb Bush denied honorary diploma
The Gainesville Sun is reporting that the University of Florida faculty senate has denied a request that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush receive an honorary degree. According to the story, several people who either nominated Bush or fear retribution are steamed. We’ll see if the fears of political retribution are validated. This also provides an […]
State High School Exit Examination database
University of Minnesota sociologist Rob Warren has created a database listing the historical development of State High School Exit Examinations. This is the type of baseline work that makes other research possible. Thanks, Rob!
If it’s springtime, I must be driving
It’s the first day of spring, and I drove 4 hours last night to get to Tallahassee for a press conference that’s related to a paper you’ll shortly see at CIVIC Concern. (It’s even a short paper.) Including city driving, I’ll probably have driven 20 hours by the end of the week. But the paper […]
Challenging the challenge index
Sara Mead has half of the right argument with Jay Mathews on his challenge index. But because she picks on King High School in Tampa (more on that in a minute), I can tell the other half of the story. Summary thus far: For a number of years, Jay Mathews (and Newsweek) has published a […]
More on higher-ed student databases
John Lombardi follows Cliff Adelman to the discussion of unit records and such. At the moment, my ideas on anonymous diploma registration are being left in the dust or on the shelf by the bigwigs. (That’s how things go…)