Maybe Nagin’s “900-mile-wide storm” wasn’t that much of an exaggeration
I started the day with some menial tasks and will continue that for a little while more before donating blood. We’ll see if I’m good for anything tomorrow (often, I’m completely wiped out the day after donating). In the obvious news, there’s nothing like a tropical-storm windfield as large as Louisiana to get your attention […]
Two interviews to read today
A few shout-outs while I’m still juggling a few hundred tasks the first week of classes: Charles Barone’s interview of Robin Taylor (Delaware’s state person in charge of accountability) The Eduwonkette Q&A for Bruce Fuller (coeditor of a new book on accountability) I can now bury my head in my own details, knowing that the […]
First day of the semester
One piece of writing today made me want to scream. Another made me want to cry. Others just left me indifferent. While things could go downhill from here, the semester is far more likely to improve. As soon as my spouse gets home, I’m going in search of better writing.
Eduwonkette is a graduate student
Who says that students are powerless? Eduwonkette is Jennifer Jennings, a doctoral sociology student at Columbia University. In retrospect, it makes an enormous amount of sense, and “grad student at Columbia” was one of the categories Leo Casey and I tossed around this spring as a possibility for Eduwonkette’s identity. Jennings has worked with demographer […]
On sampling error and troubling year-to-year jumps in the data
Phi Delta Kappan’s Bill Bushaw responded to my entry Thursday on the sample distribution of the Kappan poll: For clarification, the Gallup Organization ensures that the poll sample is identified through a truly random process. This means it’s possible to oversample one portion of the population. In order to correct for this, the responses are […]