Professor Elam

When you let someone set their own standards, those standards can be pretty low.   REad this article for an interesting take on how states define their own graduation rates. For example if we take the number of enrolled in the 12th grade in Sept and compare to the number graduating the following May, it looks pretty good. It also handily ignores all the dropouts since the ninth grade!  And yes this is happening.

Statistics are important, being able to analyze how someone reached a conclusion is very important. I hope eveyrone is paying attention is Professor Friesen’s class.