Why are women outperforming men in college?

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Saturday November 03, 2007 · 11:21 AM PDT

2007/11/03 · 11:21

In 1960, 65% of all bachelor’s degrees were awarded to men; by 2005, women received 58% of all bachelor’s degrees. What explains this trend?

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Tuesday October 30, 2007 · 1:41 PM PDT

2007/10/30 · 13:41

In 1994, a talking teen Barbie proclaimed, "Math class is tough!" and launched yet another chapter in the wars over girls and math. How are elementary school girls measuring up to boys in math today, and what factors might explain these disparities?

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Saturday October 27, 2007 · 12:11 PM PDT

2007/10/27 · 12:11

Is NYC's plan to reward educators financially a collective or an individual performance pay plan? I see this as an individual plan with an additional step - first, the school must meet benchmarks, and second, teachers can be differentially rewarded. Unless the committee of four announces upfront that bonuses will be distributed equally, teachers are going to operate under the assumption that there will be unequal shares based on their students' test scores. Even if we see equal bonuses this year, the door is wide open and I see Mike and Joel on the horizon in a performance pay Mack truck.

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Thursday October 25, 2007 · 4:09 PM PDT

2007/10/25 · 16:09

There is a veritable frezy about elite college admissions, and an arms race of strategies to help kids get in. Do admissions processes privilege upper class kids? A new book sheds some light on this issue.

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Wednesday October 24, 2007 · 9:46 AM PDT

2007/10/24 · 09:46

NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have justified their performance bonus plan by saying that it emulates the private sector. But do other sectors reward workers based on the quantifiable outcomes of their clients?

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Tuesday October 23, 2007 · 9:22 AM PDT

2007/10/23 · 09:22

How is performance pay in education supposed to "work?" Performance pay advocates make three assumptions about how these plans will improve our schools, none of which are compelling to me: 1) Performance pay will cause teachers to try harder, 2) In the case of school-based performance pay, it will encourage schoolwide collaboration., and 3) Performance pay will attract and keep better people in the teaching profession.

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 2:20 PM PDT

2007/10/18 · 14:20

Is a KIPP education is likely to pay dividends for students who don't select into KIPP lotteries? In other words, let's imagine that we head over to a neighborhood school, pick every 10th student, and assign them to a KIPP school. What's likely to happen?

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Wednesday October 17, 2007 · 12:59 PM PDT

2007/10/17 · 12:59

We often hear that spots in school choice programs like KIPP and the New York City small schools are allocated "by lottery" from those who apply to participate. The idea of a lottery is critical to our attempts to evaluate how a program, a drug, or a school is working - because we can be sure that the people receiving the "treatment" - whether it is a place in a school or a chance to take a smoking cessation drug - weren't simply the most likely to benefit from the treatment to begin with. As it turns out, neither KIPP nor the small schools in New York City are using a true lottery, which raises some serious issues about how to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs. This is not to say that some kids are not benefiting - certainly they may be - but that we need to look closely at how these schools' students are different before calling these programs a "success."

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Tuesday October 16, 2007 · 7:23 PM PDT

2007/10/16 · 19:23

The KIPP model has been held up in many circles as a silver bullet solution for urban education, and the "KIPP question" that I’ve heard many times is, "If KIPP can achieve dramatically better results with urban kids, why can’t everyone else?"

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Saturday October 13, 2007 · 7:07 AM PDT

2007/10/13 · 07:07

The central claim of school choice proponents is that increased choice will give poor and minority kids access to higher quality schools and thus close the achievement gap. But can higher quality schools alone make up the difference?

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Wednesday October 10, 2007 · 7:49 PM PDT

2007/10/10 · 19:49

A central concern in the school choice debate is whether parents choose schools based on school quality (i.e. academic performance and school culture/climate) or school status (race and class composition). Survey data addressing school choice certainly suggest that parents care about academic performance. But stated preferences (what people say) and revealed preferences (what people really do) are very different things. My conclusion from reading this literature is that parents of all backgrounds - i.e. low/high income or white/minority - are choosing on racial and class composition as much or more than they are choosing on "true" school quality as captured by schools' academic performance and climates.

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Tuesday October 09, 2007 · 1:29 PM PDT

2007/10/09 · 13:29

We hear a lot about how small schools are changing urban education. For example, the Chancellor of NYC schools recently claimed victory by announcing small school graduation rates were higher than those in large schools, and held up Evander Childs, a Bronx high school broken down into 5 small schools, as an exemplar. Celebrating Evander, an ad proclaims: "The building is the same, but the school is very different." In this post, I show that the building is the same, but the students definitely aren't. This is not to say that small schools don't have benefits for the students they serve - they certainly may - but that we can't compare apples and oranges and declare school reform victory.

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