{"id":9512,"date":"2023-03-25T06:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2023-03-25T06:48:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T13:48:03","slug":"pandemic-education-history-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=9512","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic education history poster??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday, I presented a poster on this blog series at the Association for Education Finance and Policy, in Denver, and I had a challenge: how does one present a broad-brush historical argument in this format? So I hacked the idea of a poster, which is to present a limited amount of information as an entree to a discussion with people who decide they’re interested in the topic… and created a chart thematically tied to this series, rescaled to show proportionate changes (with the bottom of the chart representing the greatest proportionate loss 2020-2023 from the 2019 baseline), but without labeling the data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Figure<\/a>
Data from three pandemic series of data, 2019-2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I used the majority of the poster space for this figure, added the poster title, a QR code tied to the first entry in this series<\/a>, and added some whimsical and clearly false labels to the series on sticky notes: bear spray sales<\/em>, time spent not<\/strong> on Twitter<\/em>, and good hair days<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Poster<\/a>
Image of poster at start of AEFP poster session, March 24, 2023. Sticky notes are Sherman Dorn’s obviously-wrong labels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I invited fellow AEFP attendees to make guesses and label the data. I answered questions without giving away the store, and here is how the poster looked at the end of the session:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Poster<\/a>
Dorn AEFP poster at end of poster session, March 24, 2023. Sticky notes are AEFP attendees’ guesses as to data sources.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And of course I promised to reveal what the actual sources were. Here’s the labeled figure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Figure<\/a>
Data on student achievement in math, women’s labor force participation, and restaurant use, 2019-2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n