Migration and graduation
I’m experimenting with publishing working papers on the Social Science Research Network, with the first one, Migration and Graduation Measures, freely downloadable on some technical issues with graduation rates. The gist: without knowing accurate information about migration (and transfers), non-longitudinal graduation rates are going to be inherently problematic.
Bewildered at arguments about rent-seeking
Not to accuse the conservative left hand of not knowing what the conservative right hand is doing, but I am bewildered by the latest publication of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. (Hat tip.) The report repeats an argument I have heard before why student aid is horrible: it feeds rent-seeking behavior from colleges […]
Remedial math in community colleges
The anonymous community-college Dean Dad wrote this morning about remedial math classes in community colleges, and I’ll use this as an excuse opportunity to bring together several thoughts I’ve spread around in different places or have not articulated: Remedial education in community colleges should be the logical place where we try Carol Twigg’s approach to […]
More notes on college visits
I’m continuing my series of notes on college visits (the last one was from the fall). Thanks to frequent-flyer mileage, my daughter’s spring break, and a few other things, we’re spending almost an entire week in a part of the country where my daughter has never visited. I’ve been in one metro area before, but […]
When historians comment on draft regulations…
Kelly Woestman, H-Net‘s current president, just wrote a wonderful comment on NARA’s proposal to reorganize the management of (and possibly centralize) presidential libraries.