Showing posts with label charter schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charter schools. Show all posts
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Homework and treatment levels

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Previously on OE, we've talked about how norming , placebo and volunteer effects can cause methods like lottery-based analyses to miss...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Things you can do if you're a charter school

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Make demands of parents : Parent involvement has been a surprisingly central feature of many of the proposals for new and restructured chart...
Friday, October 29, 2010

The most open-label of open-label experiments

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A big part of being a statistician is knowing when to get nervous, knowing when cutting a small corner could produce massive bleeding. One o...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Implications of "counseling out" part II -- missions

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This is the second part of a reply to a previous comment about counseling out disruptive students. In the first part I discussed how charte...
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Implications of "counseling out" part I -- metrics

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This comment from Michael Bish raises a couple of big questions: One important point is that there is a big difference between counseling ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

"Counseling out"

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(This post also appears at Education and Statistics.) Paul Tough writing in Slate recounts the following: In Whatever It Takes , in one of ...
Monday, October 25, 2010

"they are purging nonperforming students at an alarming rate"

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(This post also appears at Education and Statistics .) Mike at ScienceBlogs has some thoughts about selection by attrition: A letter to Dia...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Perhaps this is the time for a counter-reformation

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Just to review where we stand. Charter schools But for all their support and cultural cachet, the majority of the 5,000 or so charter scho...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

KIPP and the Teach(er) for America (or you don't know Jake)

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Sometimes the most instructive passages are the most painful to read. This account from the New York Times had me wincing every third word...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

"We've made huge advances in what they're called" -- New Republic edition

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This post by Joseph got me thinking. Charter schools are private contractors providing services that were previously provided by the govern...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Strange Bedfellows

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(where your intrepid blogger sides with Robert Samuelson, gives Ray Fisman a break and wonders what in the hell happened to Jonathan Chait...
Monday, May 3, 2010

"Shape of the earth -- opinions still differ"

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I was reminded of Paul Krugman's parody of a New York Times headline when I came to this NYT headline : "Despite Push, Success at C...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Harlem Children's Zero Sum Game

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I used to work in the marketing side of large corporation (I don't think they'd like me to use their name so let's just say you&...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games

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You've probably heard about the Harlem Children's Zone, an impressive, even inspiring initiative to improve the lives of poor inner-...