Oct 17th, 2008
You couldn’t expect a guy with a doctorate in the politics of education to let the education portion of Wednesday night’s presidential debate go unchecked, could you? Apparently, both candidates support charter schools. No surprise from McCain; the Republican party tends to support most forms of school choice (that’s a gross generalization, but I’ll live [...]
Jul 25th, 2008
Continuing my sniffing through the NAEP Data Explorer, today I “explored” differences in digitally-infused pedagogy by race. One of the items on the background questionnaire of the 8th grade NAEP in 2007 was as follows: “When you are doing math for school or homework, how often do you use these different types of computer programs?” [...]
Jul 24th, 2008
One of my posts from almost four months ago has been resurrected by comments from Tina K. and Amir. In that post, I suggested I’d do some more digging. So, I dug. Some background…these are NAEP data with tables and statistics generated by the NAEP Data Explorer. The NDE is an awesome (free!) tool for [...]