Tag Archives: Education & School

Svensk skola — ett fullständigt haveri Sen 2014 har andelen toppbetyg fördubblats från 0,25 procent till dagens 0,5 procent (knappt 500 elever). Denna andel är nästan 40 (!) gånger så stor som andelen med maximala betyg (5,0) under det relativa betygssystemet i början av 1990-talet … Det finns flera problem med denna utveckling. När betygen stiger och fler slår i taket så försvåras urvalet till vidare studier och varje enskilt betyg blir helt avgörande för...

Serious academics are full of shit These fun-hating, highfalutin’ smarties have fought to maintain an exclusive and exclusionary scholastic environment since the first Ivory Towers were built … I may be a blogger/reporter/writer/occasional internet loudmouth today, but I also identify as a scientist, and to some degree as a serious academic. What that doesn’t make me is smarter, or more important, or more deserving of respect, than you. What that doesn’t...

Income inequality and educational outcomes A new paper by economists Katherine Michelmore of Syracuse University and Susan Dynarski of the University of Michigan … use administrative data from the state of Michigan to look at how economic disadvantages affect standardized test scores. Many studies on this question will look at the achievement gap during a single year and use a measure of disadvantage such as being eligible for subsidized school lunches. But...

Kjell-Olof Feldt erkänner — friskolereformen var fel – Jag vet inte hur vi tänkte, men det blev fel med valfriheten i skolan. Det säger nu tidigare S-finansministern Kjell-Olof Feldt till SVT. – Problemet är likvärdigheten, menar Kjell-Olof Feldt. De duktiga eleverna söker sig till samma skolor, det gör att de halvbra skolorna dräneras på bra elever, och dras ner till fler och fler problemskolor. Det måste dagens politiker våga sätta stopp för. Kjell-Olof Feldt var den kanske viktigaste...

School choice — the elite illusion The results reported here suggest that an exam school education produces only scattered gains for applicants, even among students with baseline scores close to or above the mean in the target school. Because the exam school experience is associated with sharp increases in peer achievement, these results weigh against the importance of peer effects in the education production function … Of course, test scores and peer effects are only part of the exam...