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 […]
“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 […]