Sins die
Sine die* is one of the few Latin expressions known or used in the Florida statehouse, and it marks the end of a session (technically adjourning indefinitely). 6pm EDT was the scheduled close, and when the traditional handkerchief dropped a few minutes afterwards, the legislature had wreaked havoc on the state budget, blown apart the […]
The rest of the story on the excessed teacher controversy
I had been wondering what else was going on with the controversy over the excessed teacher pool in New York City. The politics here just seemed as if something was missing. Leo Casey calls it a naked political power play and lays out UFT’s perspective, along with a trail of specifics. The core of the […]
Reading the literature fairly?
In his blog entry today, Jay Greene announces a Manhattan Institute study he and Marcus Winters wrote on special education vouchers and Florida. Since I’m running between meetings today, I haven’t read it and won’t comment on the substance, but there’s an odd bit at the end of Greene’s entry: Like the bulk of previous […]
My graduation-rate regulatory comments
I finally had some time tonight to read the proposed regulatory changes for NCLB and focus on the graduation-rate piece. I decided to comment, and here’s the substance of my comments on the graduation-rate definition (below the cut):
Kudos to Corey; tomatoes for NY Times reporter
Corey Bower gets this week’s award for careful reading with his blog entry, Limitations of Research and the Headlines that Ignore Them. He went beyond the New York Times article on a recent study and read the article. Something that reporter Kenneth Chang downplayed is the setting: college students. Our findings suggest that giving college […]