Salary databases: Lots of data, lots of interest ... except from me.
Several times a year, a reporter contacts me and asks what to do with the database of teacher salaries they just acquired. When a journalist asks me whether or not to write about a piece of research that just arrived on his desk, if I don’t think there is a story there, I feel comfortable saying no. When the reporter has FOIA’d his tail off and massaged the ensuing data to the nth degree and then some, “I don’t think there is a story there” is not a very useful response.
Yet. I look at these Excel spreadsheets and too often say to myself, “So what?” Don’t get me wrong: I think
Yet. I look at these Excel spreadsheets and too often say to myself, “So what?” Don’t get me wrong: I think