Busy next week
March 24, 2008Teacher Attrition: Age-Specific Transition Rates (Sherman Dorn and Stephen Provasnik)In panel Sociological Perspectives on Teachers and Teaching2:15-3:45American Educational Research Association (SIG – Sociology of Education)New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Soho Complex, Soho Room, 7th Floor March 29, 2008Defending Effective Accountability and Assessment Practices10:45-12:15Joint AFT/NEA Higher Education ConferenceHilton Washington ChairOra James Bouey, Health […]
They’re for the children… or the adults. Well, which one is it, and where’s the scorecard when you need one?
There’s a deeper dynamic in urban school politics that reporters are missing, even the work of good beat professionals such as those who work for the St. Petersburg Times: When they talk about African American politicians who support vouchers, whether it’s members of the Florida legislature, Barack Obama, or David Paterson, they often forget that […]
A rescue for Swanson’s CPI?
(Note: I’ve changed a few things in the first graph, and someone pointed out to me that I had fallen prey to one of the many Excel glitches, but I’ll show the changes below…) I’ve written informally here on graduation measures, expressing my concern about Chris Swanson’s Cumulative Promotion Index, known among the grad-rate numerati […]
Playing chicken with a Mack truck and living to tell the tale
This year I’ve occasionally likened Florida politics and policymaking to playing chicken with a Mack truck. Usually, the truck wins. But twice in the past few months, the minority leader in the Florida House (Dan Gelber), has won the game, most recently by getting out in front of a mail-in redo of the Democratic presidential […]
Defending Effective Accountability and Assessment Practices
Saturday, March 29, 200810:45-12:15Hilton Washington Defending Effective Accountability and Assessment Practices is the title of the session I’m a participant in at the NEA/AFT Higher Education Joint Conference. AFT web page on conference NEA web page on conference From what I understand, the tentatively-slated participants include staff members of two institutional associations as well as […]