6 Things I’m still waiting for in 2012 (and likely will be for some time!)
I start this new year with reflections on some unfinished business from 2011 – Here are a few bits of information I anxiously await for 2012. Some are likely within reach. Others, well, not so much.
- A thoroughly documented (rigorously vetted) study by Harvard economist Roland Fryer, which actually identifies and breaks out in sufficient detail (& with appropriate rigor & thorough documentation) the costs of delivering in whole and in part (and costs of bringing to scale), no excuses curriculum/models/strategies and comprehensive wrap-around services.
- The long since promised rigorous New Jersey charter school evaluation – or even better – improved student level data in New Jersey such that researchers can actually conduct reasonable analyses of