On graduation rates and auditing state databases
I sympathize with Florida’s Deputy Commissioner of Education Jeff Sellers, finding himself defending the state’s official graduation rate the week that Education Week published its Swanson-index issue and pointed to Florida as a low-graduation state, using numbers far below the state’s official numbers. Some perspective: Florida’s official graduation rate is inflated, but it’s still better […]
Mostly useless… except for blogging
I don’t know if any other bloggers has the experience I occasionally do, of wondering if people ever read my blog to see if I’m skipping work that I owe them. At almost any time, I owe scads of work to others, and I suppose they might all think I’m shirking my work when I […]