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 […]