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DPS Grads and College
A new study, with coverage in the Denver Post and EdNews Colorado (longer and more detail). The take away: A first-of-its-kind study tracking Denver Public Schools’ students six years after high school...
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College graduation rates: falling, failing
A piece from a WSJ economics blog about a new report on college graduation rates: What’s the difference between attending Bennington College in Vermont versus Trinity College in Connecticut? They seem...
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Reunion prompts diversity questions
My wife had her 20th high school reunion recently. She attended a large public high school noted then, as now, for the diversity of its student body. But attendees of the reunion itself were not...
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Why college matters
Taking a break from state politics, and a short piece in The Economist with some sharp points on why students need to be prepared for college, and have the fiscal and academic ability to attend: In...
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Low-income students and college
An evil twin to Paul’s earlier post about the continuing economic benefits of a college education is the depressing news that fewer and fewer low-income students are both attending and graduating from...
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The graduation-proficiency gap in DPS
The recent Westword article on Denver North High School’s manipulation of its graduation rates, the belief that “juking the stats” likely spreads beyond a single school and a sage comment at the end...
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Tuition subsidies: A difference of degrees
States subsidize college for many of their residents. Generally this has been perceived as a good trade-off: a state (and its taxpayers) benefit in a variety of ways by having a more educated populace...
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Standardized March Madness
March brings with it two education rituals: college becomes young adults trying to get an orange ball through an iron circle, and K-12 public education transforms into students filling in small circles...
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2013 School Performance in Denver
TCAP data was released last week, and the focus in Denver was an emphasis on median growth percentiles. Now I think academic growth is really important, and I’m on record as saying the Colorado Growth...
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The Problem with Growth Scores
Let’s start with something on which everyone should agree: metrics are neither inherently good nor inherently evil. They are simply calculations — ticks on a stick that measure time, distance, speed,...
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