{"id":515,"date":"2006-04-24T22:22:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T02:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=515"},"modified":"2006-04-24T22:22:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T02:22:33","slug":"dueling-grad-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Dueling grad rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/html\/cr_48.htm\">Jay Greene dropout\/graduation report<\/a>, and then comes Lawrence Mishel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/content.cfm\/book_grad_rates\">counterargument<\/a>! Then Edwize <a href=\"http:\/\/edwize.org\/its-almost-graduation-time\">gets into the game<\/a>! And then the AFT NFTBlog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letsgetitright.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/grad_rate_debate_could_be_grea.html\">says there will be a debate between the primary authors<\/a> hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cep-dc.org\/\">Center on Education Policy<\/a>. It sounds a bit like a WWF match, but I need to confirm the existence of this debate with CEP staff.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been crazy-busy for about a week and haven&#8217;t had time to read either one, especially the Mishel\/Roy book. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000443.html\">my own approach<\/a> to measuring graduation, but I&#8217;m a little concerned this is becoming the Jay-and-Lawrence show, when I think neither has published their graduation-rate research in refereed journals. (I haven&#8217;t and won&#8217;t tout my stuff as anything but exploratory at the moment.)  I hope CEP calls on a few more people, such as Jing Miao, Rob Warren, or Robert Kominski, to provide commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jay Greene dropout\/graduation report, and then comes Lawrence Mishel&#8217;s counterargument! Then Edwize gets into the game! And then the AFT NFTBlog says there will be a debate between the primary authors hosted by the Center on Education Policy. It sounds a bit like a WWF match, but I need to confirm the existence of [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-8j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}