“We can never have too many resources”??
In the Times article on Rockefeller’s $100 Million donation to Harvard, Harvard President Drew Faust said, To outsiders, our bucket may seem full, but at Harvard, we so often see aspirations we hope to fulfill that we can never have too many resources. That’s chutzpah. The question is not whether Harvard can have too many […]
Graduation rate regs
I will need to read the proposed regulatory changes in NCLB more carefully when I have the chance, but it looks like there are several good things and a few odd things in the uniform definition of a graduation rate: Good: The proposed regs propose a longitudinal graduation rate as the long term, preferred measure […]
Delaware symposium
I’ve had a wonderful time in the past two and a half days in Newark, Delaware, as a presenter at a University of Delaware symposium on the past, present, and future of special education. I had the chance to catch up with several friends I hadn’t seen in a few years, make some new friends, […]
College graduation
The new Ed Sector report by Kevin Carey, Graduation Rate Watch, summarizes some of the material available from the IPEDS 6-year graduation measures for four-year colleges and universities. The main point is that there are vast differences within different higher-ed sectors not only in 6-year graduation stats but also Black-White differences in graduation. He correctly […]
The Indiana Jones response to philosophy-of-research blogging
Kevin Carey has his say on a preponderance-of-evidence standard on policy propositions (in response to an Eduwonkette discussion of growth measures). Skoolboy responds. I wouldn’t go all ad-lib-for-convenience on you all if it weren’t 11:20 at night, but I’m tired, and since this is a meta-discussion about judging teachers based on test scores, I’ll just […]