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 […]