Voucher Study Discussion
A "storified" version of a conversation on Twitter about a study of school vouchers.
- First, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, took to Twitter to announce the publication of her review of a voucher study. Her review was published by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC).
My full review of the recent Brookings study on #vouchers & college attendance was just published: bit.ly/QNK160 @DianeRavitch- Then, Matt Chingos, a Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy, and a co-author (along with Paul Peterson of Harvard University) of the voucher study published by Brookings, uses Twitter to announce their response to Goldrick-Rab which is published in Education Next.
Criticisms in @NEPCTweet review of our voucher study by @saragoldrickrab are largely without merit. Our response: educationnext.org/critique-of-st…- Goldrick-Rab responds three minutes later...
- .@chingos @nepctweet sorry to see you stand by this -- good luck with publication
- And Chingos immediately pushes back in good form...
- @saragoldrickrab Re publication, want to make a friendly wager? Next round of drinks at Panache?
- As the "debate" ensues, and because this is happening "in public," another truly modern scholar, Dr. Bruce Baker, Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, can and does weigh in by pointing out a sad reality of the field of educational research...
@saragoldrickrab @chingos I would expect it to get published somewhere but that doesn't negate the serious methodological concerns- Chingos and Goldrick-Rab continue the discussion...
- @saragoldrickrab Of course we're going to revise in response to comments we've received (crazy not to). But main finding won't change.
- @saragoldrickrab that description applies to some of the comments but not all. e.g. will obviously correct description of matching re SSN
- At this point, Goldrick-Rab suggests moving the discussion to another modern medium, a webinar, which would allow for more fully-articulated arguments, be in public view, and which could be recorded and archived for those unable to "attend."
- Then, Goldrick-Rab announces that she has taken her critique of the Brookings voucher study to the Chronicle of Higher Education. She's taking full advantage of the affordances of the modern Web for knowledge dissemination.
- I've returned to the Chronicle and joined the conversation-- about #vouchers! bit.ly/SIDlY4
- Finally (for the purposes of this Storify story), Goldrick-Rab offers a reply to Chingos about measurement error, and constructs her tweet in such a way that all of her 2,177 followers (and not just those following both her and Chingos) can see it (i.e. she doesn't just reply; she begins the tweet with text).
- Ur response re measurement error is mistaken @chingos , it's not random, is correlated w race & possibly treatment too www4.uwm.edu/letsci/sociolo…
- And, just to show the benefits of Twitter for this sort of discussion, you see that another fine, modern education scholar, Sherman Dorn, Professor of Education at the University of South Florida, chimes in...
Chingos/Peterson diet (reply 2 @saragoldrickrab): just don't count the days you gain less than scale's measurement error.
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- Paul Bakerthis story was picked up by AERA president Bill Tierney in an email to members about the need to rethink communication schemes. 2012-09-18T20:42:45.278Z
- Sara Goldrick-RabJon, this is a fascinating piece! Here is the latest saga. http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/sgr-reply-brookings.pdf2012-09-17T02:03:42.437Z
- Paul Bakerthis story was picked up by AERA president Bill Tierney in an email to members about the need to rethink communication schemes. 2012-09-18T20:42:45.278Z
- Sara Goldrick-RabJon, this is a fascinating piece! Here is the latest saga. http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/sgr-reply-brookings.pdf2012-09-17T02:03:42.437Z
