{"id":615,"date":"2006-06-30T07:03:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T11:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=615"},"modified":"2006-06-30T07:03:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T11:03:41","slug":"nyc-graduation-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"NYC graduation rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/30\/nyregion\/30graduation.html\">NY Times story on school graduation rates<\/a> by David Herszenhorn, there&#8217;s an important tidbit: the schools hired a firm to audit records. I didn&#8217;t know of that when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000561.html\">wrote that as one recommendation for Florida&#8217;s graduation-rate calculation<\/a>, but I&#8217;m delighted to hear it now. A preventive step to ensure the accuracy of school records? Who woulda thunk it? I&#8217;ll be curious to see what the actual audit process was.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s unfortunate that the chancellor&#8217;s office chose to release the rates selectively, just for 15 small schools (part of the city&#8217;s small-school initiative). I&#8217;m happy that graduation is up at those schools, but it would be a smarter, more credible move to release all of the school stats on the same day, so it looks less like cherry-picking the results. It&#8217;ll be a few more years before we know whether the small-schools initiative is really an improvement or is too much of &#8220;big schools in drag,&#8221; a phrase I&#8217;ve read attributed to Michelle Fine in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A17512-2003Nov27?language=printer\">Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenotebook.org\/editions\/2005\/spring\/differences.htm\">Philadelphia Public School Notebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideschools.org\/nv\/NV_small_schools_oct03.php\">InsideSchools.org<\/a> articles on small schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s NY Times story on school graduation rates by David Herszenhorn, there&#8217;s an important tidbit: the schools hired a firm to audit records. I didn&#8217;t know of that when I wrote that as one recommendation for Florida&#8217;s graduation-rate calculation, but I&#8217;m delighted to hear it now. A preventive step to ensure the accuracy 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-615","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-9V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}