There are some heavy hitters presenting: 2022 Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshops [please recirculate to others who might be interested] After a COVID break during 2020 and 2021, we are excited to be holding our 11th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL. We invite you to attend. Our apologies for the...
Public school teachers sexually abuse more children than priests
From CBS News, of all places: Consider the statistics: In accordance with a requirement of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, in 2002 the Department of Education carried out a study of sexual abuse in the school system. Hofstra University researcher Charol Shakeshaft looked into the problem, and the first thing that came to her mind when Education Week reported on the study were the daily...
Survey shows Americans opposed to using demographics in college admissions
I have a feeling that changes are coming in the next decade in how public universities admit students. Article here.
IES Offers Upcoming Research Methods Training Programs
IES is funding four research methods training programs that are holding workshops this summer. These workshops support the training of current education researchers to expand and upgrade their methodological skills. Participants include individuals located in colleges and universities, state and local education agencies, education-focused organizations, and companies that have developed and...
How the woke are ruining math in our schools
As the New York Times reports, “testing results regularly show that math students in the United States are lagging behind those in other industrialized nations. And within the country, there is a persistent racial gap in achievement.” And the traditional approach to math creates the appearance of a conflict between these two real problems: To improve math education, we need to better tailor the...
Report shows UNC System wastes millions on CRT/DEI
Here are some highlights: Total DEI administrative salaries across the system exceed $12 million. Both UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State each have 11 DEI administrators making more than $100,000, with more than 30 DEI employees total at each school. Salaries at each university total more than $3.25 million. UNC System medical schools have extensive DEI administrative functions, including the UNC...
Survey data show that Democrats love censorship; Republicans do not
Compelling evidence that lockdowns did not work
This post does a nice job summarizing a recent meta-analysis of lockdown studies. If you’re not familiar with meta-analyses, they are a study of studies: researchers gather a group of studies an area, like lockdowns, and statistically analyze the collective results. This helps us understand what the field really knows, rather than relying on that one study that was trumpeted by the media...
Another university conservative kills himself
This is a long post about the terrible price some people pay when targeted by the woke mob. Chadwick Seagraves Chadwick Seagraves, an IT employee at NC State, was anonymously accused of being a Proud Boy and doxing Antifa members, as well as collecting information about Antifa on university time, accusations that he strongly denied: I have been subjected to an organized campaign of slander...