{"id":1305,"date":"2008-04-25T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2008-04-25T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T20:35:02","slug":"graduation-rate-regs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Graduation rate regs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will need to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/legislation\/FedRegister\/other\/2008-2\/042308a.html\">proposed regulatory changes in NCLB<\/a> more carefully when I have the chance, but it looks like there are several good things and a few odd things in the uniform definition of a graduation rate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good: The proposed regs propose a longitudinal graduation rate as the long term, preferred measure of graduation.\n<li>Bad: The proposed regs allow the &#8220;averaged freshman graduation rate&#8221; as a transitional measure until 2012. AFGR has little empirical basis for its estimate of the ninth-grade cohort size.\n<li>Good: The proposed regs eliminate several loopholes I&#8217;ve seen states use to inflate graduation rates, including shifting a student&#8217;s cohort when the student is retained in grade, removing the student from any cohort if they drop out to enroll in GED programs, and so forth.\n<li>Odd: the <em>only<\/em> graduation measure proposed is a four-year cohort rate. While I disagree with Leo Casey&#8217;s claim that <a href=\"http:\/\/edwize.org\/spellings-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease\">the cure is worse than the disease<\/a>, the four-year-only rate fails to acknowledge or credit schools for promoting graduation on any schedule other than a strict four-year schedule. It makes much better sense to report a four-year rate, a five-year rate, and an any-time rate. <\/ul>\n<p>And anything more will have to wait until I&#8217;m back home, have caught up with other things, and have had a chance to think about this some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will need to read the proposed regulatory changes in NCLB more carefully when I have the chance, but it looks like there are several good things and a few odd things in the uniform definition of a graduation rate: Good: The proposed regs propose a longitudinal graduation rate as the long term, preferred measure [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-l3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","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=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}