{"id":1273,"date":"2008-04-01T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2008-04-01T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T19:13:42","slug":"gradurated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Gradu[r]ated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/pressreleases\/2008\/04\/04012008.html\">U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Department Will Move to a Uniform Graduation Rate, Require Disaggregation of Data<\/a> (the true title of the press release today announcing imminent-but-not-published draft regs defining a graduation rate and only a few words away from the type of book title that would cure almost any insomnia). And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/apps\/list\/speech\/edlabor_dem\/rel040108.html\">George Miller huffs<\/a> some that it wasn&#8217;t bipartisan (hat tip to David Hoff on the Miller statement). So what&#8217;s the buzz about?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spellings <em>is<\/em> channeling Adlai Stevenson&#8217;s approach to governance and proudly announcing bold action on issues that are almost consensual and would happen without her intervention. <\/li>\n<li>Especially for this particular issue, the devil is in the details. Florida has a longitudinal graduation measure, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s accurate. If the regulatory language released in draft form would allow Florida to keep doing what it&#8217;s doing officially, you won&#8217;t see much in the form of transparency (and at least with two issues, you may see things get worse). <\/li>\n<li>Spellings is hoping the gravitas and charm of Colin Powell rubs off. Admittedly, Powell hasn&#8217;t (yet) been on NPR&#8217;s <em>Wait, wait, &#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Maybe this is more evidence that Spellings will run for elected office in Texas and claim that she created growth measures, differentiated consequences, and airtight graduation rates. At least she&#8217;s not claiming to have invented the Internet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Department Will Move to a Uniform Graduation Rate, Require Disaggregation of Data (the true title of the press release today announcing imminent-but-not-published draft regs defining a graduation rate and only a few words away from the type of book title that would cure almost any insomnia). And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-kx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}