Catherine Lugg starts blogging
Welcome to Cath Lugg, a friend and historian of education who's just joined the small coterie of blogging historians of education: Diane Ravitch, Larry Cuban, and Adrea Lawrence. One meta-note: My apologies for the light blogging over the past week. Last week I had to prepare for and attend a special magistrate's hearing over the […]
Jay Greene, administrative bloat, and “Snoozester”
In a follow-up to his report a few weeks ago about university and college budgets, earlier this week Jay Greene described an $11,000 contract at the University of Central Arkansas for a program to make sure students wake up on time. Sure, it's a complete waste of money. It would be cheaper to put up […]
More L.A. Times criticism, and a question for Hechinger’s Richard Lee Colvin
A brief follow-up this morning to my criticism of the Los Angeles Times' disclosure of point estimates from a single model of teacher test-score raising prowess: Dana Goldstein points out that media critic Jack Shafer's commentary is factually wrong (as well as vicious), and the Kingsbury Center's John Cronin takes the same line I do […]
Mild rants to end the week.
In no particular order: Why does Worldcat give my Internet Explorer browser such fits? Why do I live in the same state as Rush Limbaugh, the balloon-boy family, and the money-desperate guy who threatens to burn the Quran? Or, rather, since I like living in Florida, why did they ever move here?? Has any quantitative social-science […]
Data use caution 2
By Sherman Dorn on September 10, 2010
Some additional thoughts on analyzing something like graduation/dropping out: if one looks at the transitions between attendance and nonattendance as generally clear but not always, there should be no surprise that we don't have great tools to predict whether someone is going to graduate or not from high school. That's because those tools are poor […]
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