{"id":976,"date":"2007-06-12T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=976"},"modified":"2007-06-12T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T16:06:00","slug":"new-swanson-cpi-numbers-still-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"New Swanson CPI numbers: still flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/toc\/2007\/06\/12\/index.html\">Ed Week graduation numbers<\/a>&nbsp;are out, based on 2003 and 2004 Common Core of Data figures. Among the 50 largest district, the lowest Swanson CPI&nbsp;(cohort progression index) in the nation is still Detroit with 24.9%. And the CPI is <em>still<\/em> flawed,&nbsp;partly because it relies on the unaudited Common Core of Data figures. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000545.html\">I said almost a year ago<\/a>, Detroit&#8217;s figures make no sense (and please accept my apologies for the long scroll you&#8217;ll have to make below to get to the table):<\/p>\n<p>Detroit CPI calculations, 2000-2004<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Measure<\/th>\n<th>2000<\/th>\n<th>2001<\/th>\n<th>2002<\/th>\n<th>2003<\/th>\n<th>2004<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>9th grade enrollment<\/th>\n<td>13,723<\/td>\n<td>14,494<\/td>\n<td>20,025<\/td>\n<td>17,837<\/td>\n<td>16,832<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>10th grade enrollment<\/th>\n<td>8,860<\/td>\n<td>9,291<\/td>\n<td>11,275<\/td>\n<td>9,899<\/td>\n<td>9,326<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>11th grade enrollment<\/th>\n<td>6,355<\/td>\n<td>6,382<\/td>\n<td>7,795<\/td>\n<td>7,421<\/td>\n<td>6,581<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>12th grade enrollment<\/th>\n<td>5,329<\/td>\n<td>4,618<\/td>\n<td>6,020<\/td>\n<td>5,244<\/td>\n<td>5,604<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Prior year grads<\/th>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>6,068<\/td>\n<td>5,540<\/td>\n<td>5,975<\/td>\n<td>4,975<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>CPI<\/th>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>40.4%<\/td>\n<td>73.9%<\/td>\n<td>21.7%<\/td>\n<td>24.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/ccd\/\">Common Core of Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is there <em>any<\/em> chance that Detroit&#8217;s numbers can fluctuate so wildly? Garbage in, garbage out.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Ed Week graduation numbers&nbsp;are out, based on 2003 and 2004 Common Core of Data figures. Among the 50 largest district, the lowest Swanson CPI&nbsp;(cohort progression index) in the nation is still Detroit with 24.9%. And the CPI is still flawed,&nbsp;partly because it relies on the unaudited Common Core of Data figures. As I [&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":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-fK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}