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Honestly, I feel for them. If you follow any of them on twitter its clear that they are frustrated and receive nothing, and if you remember from training camp had significant restrictions placed on them.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) "Accept my questionable conclusions about fundamentally changing public education because research is hard" isn't an adequate answer. That's not what I'm saying. Every study is going to have its limitations, but there hasn't been a single study with charter education. There have been lots and lots and lots, and frankly since 2012 more and more they have been showing that gains for the students you would want to see gains for improving. Almost all of the input gaps you speak of actually have been accounted for, and are showing gains for charters. There are bad networks. Ohio especially (as stated in the article). But in well regulated areas the gains for the students you would want to see gains from have been tremendous. Speaking of ESL students, its odd that charters would outperform pilot schools with similar numbers of ESL students. Pilots, after all, have full control over curriculum, so you would expect similar outcomes. http://users.nber.org/~dynarski/BostonQJE.pdf http://users.nber.org/~dynarski/KIPP.pdf - significant math increases after 1 year. If all of what you said was true, you would expect pilots to perform equally to charters, yet that has not been the case. Its true that charters in suburbs do not tend to do anything more than their public peers (! inputs). But in urban areas with low-income students is where gains have been most significant. We saw the effects of the recession on HS grads and worse for HS dropouts. This has significant consequences and possibilities for improvement. I believed what you were saying 3 years ago, but if I had to put money on it, in 3 years, there will be no doubt. The studies are continuing and filling in these gaps.

Welcome to social science. Its very difficult to create perfect studies with live humans, yet these are pretty good representations that in any other topic would be enthusiastically received.

So it was 10/23 when he started running and there are a bunch of articles from 10/23-10/24 and since then zilch.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 02:17 PM) No, it just kinda hand-waived some of them away in a couple of paragraphs: Her research specifically has not addressed how non-lottery charters perform. It's also based on large, successful charters with oversubscribed lotteries and good archival records. In that regard, it's sort of circular--you'd expect the better charters to be oversubscribed, and if you're looking at just the oversubscribed schools, you'd expect to find the best results. The doesn't comment on the special-needs and ELL issue, but her paper acknowledges it (without commenting on the potential impact, from what I can tell): Lotteries themselves not truly randomized. The only part that is randomized is the selection itself, but everything before (who actually applies and who's encouraged to apply for the lotteries) and after (demotivational factors of not being selected, peer group factors) aren't. Her categorical statement that any differences can be attributed to a single variable, are, frankly, bulls*** (and her own paper doesn't make nearly as strong of a claim). If you follow some of the links to other research including her own, those studies seem to emphasize the "No Excuses" model that some charters follow as the model that has shown the gains. That model, which essentially relies on strict punishment and shame, is not without criticisms even if it can boost test scores. If it is also the magic bullet she believes it to be, it could be implemented in public schools as well. Her own research also points to class size being an important factor--public schools would love to reduce class size if the funding was there. The problem with you implying improving test scores are their only achievement therefore it must be due to teaching to the test, are the very real gains they are finding in secondary education.

From the article: Perhaps only the best charters are popular, and that’s why the lottery studies produce such positive estimates. We can’t use the lottery approach to assess a school that does not have high demand for its seats. In Boston, we used alternative statistical methods to examine the charters that are not oversubscribed. We found smaller but still positive results. A Stanford study examined student performance in 41 cities, and also concluded that their charters outperformed their traditional public schools. A caution: Without randomization, we can’t be as certain these nonlottery studies have eliminated selection bias.

The only moderately difficult part to a nest is taking off hte old thermostat and screwing the base into the wall. Everything else is impossible to screw up.

Seriously. The firing "good not great" coaches without a known replacement just never seems to work out.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 01:36 PM) So, whats the hold up on Kevin White. Put him on the IR or activate him already Good question. Seemed like 3 weeks ago there was a lot of "Kevin White Running!" articles and since then, nada.

Honestly any sleeper pick that makes the majors is a pretty good selection.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 01:08 PM) Outside interest? I am really surprised by this. Claussen being beyond bad in his backup, with such a conservative offense in place, seemed to me to indicate literally anyone else could do what he did.

Mine are not grouped, either.

And t-minus 365 days until "White Sox Hire Aaron Rowand as New Manager"

All of that was addressed in the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/upshot/a...rates.html?_r=0 Often the discussion around charter schools is two sides throwing the same talking points at each other. Should be noted there is a ton of research being done on the Charter schools.

We don't seem to run the pick plays in the red zone that are money for the rest of the teams.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 23, 2015 -> 09:49 AM) Am I the only one who thinks the Bulls should swoop in and trade for Ty Lawson? I mentioned wishing we had done this in the offseason. I have no idea what is possible in our cap situation. can't stress how much I hate our guard situation. Totally self-made.

How long will it take for bulls own D league team to start?

To anyone that wants to travel internationally I really recommend checking flights the next six months. It's $450 r/t to Brazil right now, $700 to China. My friend got very cheap tickets to iceland. We are doing a 2 week trip around Asia in March, starting in Tokyo, then Beijing > Shanghai > Hanoi/Halong Bay > Hong Kong. Very excited and consuming everything possible on it right now. I imagine I'll eat 5 weeks worth of food in those 2 weeks.

They've won three recently.

$15 million not to coach.

Amazing that a team in July that had Jeffery Royal and White has had to start Wilson and Bellamy so often. Really tiring the injuries this year.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 22, 2015 -> 01:56 PM) Cutler having a bad game. Doesn't seem comfortable Nowhere to really throw

I don't believe we've tried a screen. Broncos d probably too good for it, but a surprise after last week.

This game seems like it's flying by