Domesday version 2010
Congratulations to all 308,745,538 of us! I'd link to the Census Bureau website, but I think it's crashed under a huge weight of traffic. Update: The Census Bureau website has evidently recovered.
Florida achievement gaps, the data
The following is more of a useful reference for me than anything else, but since I've been asked a few times about the "everyone else behave like Florida" argument floating out there, here is (in Excel format) Florida NAEP scale score data through 2010, with selected demographic groups. Some caveats: you'll see different starting dates because […]
Rep. Bill Young’s missed opportunity on DADT repeal
Now that Congress has passed the don't ask, don't tell repeal, the final House roll-call last week on the measure was probably the last legislative action Rep. C.W. (Bill) Young will take regarding discrimination based on sexual orientation. While others celebrate Young's political longevity, it's important to acknowledge that from his beginnings in the Florida legislature […]
Nominations for top education stories of 2010
I'm getting around to this a bit earlier than usual in December: what were the big education stories of 2010? Nominate your picks in comments! Comments will close on the 23rd, and I'll describe my picks in the last week of the year.
“Efficiency” vs. “accountability” in education discourse (one tiny and friable slice)
Like many others, I’ve been enjoying playing for at least a few minutes with the new Google Ngram viewer. So what can one see when you put in the phrases school accountability and school efficiency in the Google Ngram search box? The blue line is the proportionate set of sources in the Google database (by […]