Fun with education funding and ROI, historically
As I wrote in the entry from March 10 on manipulated charts, ((Yes, there’s a new addition there in response to Andrew Coulson.)) there’s a legitimate discussion to be had about investments in education, returns on investment, and so forth, but not if we start with manipulated presentations. What sorts of questions are relevant? I’m […]
High (court) citation
A shout-out to my brother Stan, for his work has been cited by a DOJ brief to the Supreme Court in the health-care reform case (Florida v. HHS).
America’s Promise 2012 report relies on problematic graduation measure… for the last time?
This year’s America’s Promise report on high school graduation rates has just been released, and according to the description on p. 23, the non-profit is using the Adjusted Freshman Graduation Rate, which has a moderate relationship at best to the new federal adjusted-cohort rate, at least using Florida data. A little better is the Johns […]
Surveys that are less impressive the more you look into them
While I am on the theme of data overinterpretation this week, two recent surveys that have been overinterpreted: 1. The recent Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey of New York City residents, which included a number of questions on school politics in the city. The New York Times’ blog entry by Winnie Hu started, “A majority of New York City voters approve […]
D***ed autocorrect by Edweek… / Rick Hess’s comment re AERA
I hate sock puppetry, and since Edweek’s server would not let me add a display name to my account this morning, it is not clear on the website that I am the author of the first response to Rick Hess’s call for public defunding of AERA. I am “USER_768949.” ((Who is USER_1??)) Hess is arguing that […]