Lobbyist registration obsfuscation by StudentsFirst CT?
In a blog entry today, former Connecticut legislator Jon Pelto is asserting that Michelle Rhee and other StudentsFirst employees who lobbied in the Connecticut legislature did not transparently register as lobbyists for StudentsFirst but instead for a fictional organization, GNEPSA, whose URL http://gnepsa.org is immediately redirected to … StudentsFirst CT. I downloaded the relevant lobbyist […]
Automated essay scoring on state writing tests: as efficiently “meh” as human graders
Mark Shermis and Ben Hamner are presenting a paper on automated essay scoring at NCME on Monday, ((4:05 p.m.–6:05 p.m., Hyatt Regency Second Floor, Georgia Room B)) and there has already been quite a bit of reporting on it, such as yesterday’s article at IHE. I link to the IHE reporting because the comment thread […]
Updated international attainment motion chart
For the Comparative and International Education Society meeting in Puerto Rico this month: Source: Minnesota Population Center, International Public Use Microdata Sample. The variable of interest is educational attainment (for those aged 25-29 at the time of an individual country’s census). In a few cases, I recalculated attainment based on my disagreement with the […]
Richard Arum is a smart guy, but he’s dead wrong on the history of student legal rights
Note [4/9/2012]: In publishing Arum’s column The Atlantic omitted the relationship between this column and Arum’s book Judging School Discipline. In an example of the interesting silos in education research, the 2003 book was never reviewed by history of education journals. To put it bluntly, yikes. I’ll leave this entry intact and write another one once I have […]
Why are these data different from all other data?
I am the youngest of five children, so I get to ask questions today. ((For those reading this entry months or years later and don’t have the skills to translate between calendars on the fly, it’s the first day of Passover, and traditionally asking the four questions is the privilege/obligation of the young.)) Sara Goldrick-Rab […]