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A Closer Look at TFA’s Alumni Survey and Data Practices
Teach For America (TFA) recently released a report describing some of the results from its alumni survey. The report provides interesting information about many alums’ careers. At the same time, however, TFA’s misleading presentation of the results and the organization’s unwillingness to share the underlying data are troubling. Consider the…
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What’s the Best Way to Deal with the Ku Klux Klan?
On the recommendation of my friend and colleague Mike Mitchell, I recently listened to a fascinating podcast about Daryl Davis, an award-winning musician who is best known for his role in bringing down the Maryland chapter of the Ku Klux Klan – through his friendship with Klan members. In the…
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Is VAM a Sham? Depends on the Question You’re Asking.
“Does data source X provide useful information?” and “Should data source X be used for purpose Y?” are two very different questions. Unfortunately, conflation of these questions by education researchers, writers, and advocates far too frequently results in bad policy recommendations. This problem surfaces especially often in debates about value…
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Black Lives Matter Movement Gives Bernie Sanders’ Racial Justice Agenda the Push It Needs
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has unveiled a comprehensive racial justice agenda aimed at “addressing the four central types of violence waged against black and brown Americans: physical, political, legal and economic.” The agenda includes, among other policy proposals, a call for police demilitarization, community policing, aggressive prosecution of police officers…
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Anti-gay Policy at the FDA and What You Can Do About It
Ireland recently became the first country to legalize gay marriage through public referendum, a major victory for the LGBT rights movement. The US Supreme Court is expected to follow in Irish voters’ footsteps soon; the court will probably rule in favor of legalized gay marriage when it issues an opinion…
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Sexual Assault Prevention Requires More than Well-Intentioned Allies
Update (3/2/2018): Author’s information has been removed due to the author’s request to remain anonymous. Columbia University student-activist and rape survivor Emma Sulkowicz was raped by a classmate in 2012, and, after the university failed to punish her attacker, called attention to the epidemic of sexual assault on campus through…
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Money and Power Matter. Family Structure, Not So Much.
50 years ago, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report called The Negro Family: The Case For National Action. The central argument in what has come to be called the Moynihan Report was that “The Breakdown of the Negro Family Has Led to a Startling Increase in…
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How much is a (black) life worth?
I avoided writing about these issues of police brutality against black folk for a long time, because I was afraid that once I did, the chronic depression that lies latent within the black cultural consciousness would rear its ugly head — and it did. The names and “heartbreaking cases” seem…
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Anti-Vaxxers: Why Medical Students Aren’t Being Trained to Weigh-in
With increasing frequency I have been asked by friends and well-wishers about how “anti-vaxxers” are being broached by my medical school professors. Simply put, we aren’t being taught anything on the matter. This is insight on how future physicians are being groomed to handle public misinformation and media outcry. Obviously…
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