Don’t exercise: you’ll destroy the world
If you had asked me this morning what I expected from the latest round of NAEP math scores and what was going on in DCPS, I would have told you to expect NAEP math scores to increase at a snail’s pace with loads of arguments about what that meant, that Michelle Rhee seemed to have […]
The comparability fly in the Ouchi/principal-autonomy ointment
Yesterday from a “stakeholders” meeting (I think at the USDOE), Charlie Barone tweets, Richard Laine of Wallace Foundation: forthcoming Rand study will show [principal] autonomy in hiring a key factor in student achievement. I’ve been expecting something like this for a while, not because I’m connected to a RAND insider (I’m not) but because this […]
R!
A graduate student in biostats here is willing to tutor me in R (the open-source equivalent of S-Plus). Yes, faculty need to learn additional things, and sometimes that requires tutoring/coaching. For me, those realms include music, martial arts, and now new stats packages. And because my college wants guinea pigs for its exercise-training classes, I’m […]
Why you don’t always need a statewide charter authorizer
I don’t understand the obsession some people have with multiple charter-school authorizers. In Florida, it has always been the county school board since the charter-school law was first approved in the mid-90s. A few years ago in Florida, the legislature decided for some reason that not enough proposals were being approved and created (and spent […]