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Very excited to attend the upcoming SREE conference later this month and share the findings from my paper "Evaluating Inequality Using a Six-Factor Index of Educational Advantage." sree.confex.com/sree/2023/meet… #SREE2023

@rasmansa You might find this site helpful for visualizing group differences. rpsychologist.com/cohend/

The statistical requirement to claim that two groups differ is much higher than just showing that their means differ. This is such a complicated and counterintuitive thing for people to get, and I find few good lay explanations.

@WCastilloPhD @AERA_EdResearch Done and thank you!

@rasmansa @olnool2 Need to account for course of study too. What about a student who takes hard courses and gets Bs vs. one who takes easy ones and gets As? UCs account for this to a certain extent (A-G requirements). Teacher's rigor varies so an A may not always = A. Need to address this.

@olnool2 That's not the fault of the students of that school, so they absolutely shouldn't be penalized for it. By the way, I mean within-school GPA rank percentile. So the top student at a "bad" school should rank above the second best student at a "great" school.

Big move by the University of California school system. As a replacement, schools will use 13 other criteria, including student GPA. latimes.com/california/sto…

@LisaDeBruine I wonder if this thread suffers from publication bias of positive outcomes.

@rasmansa @scottbe68160181 An atavistic feature most famously manifested with Groucho Marx.

@scottbe68160181 Cool huh

This is fascinating news. It's going to take a while to work out what's actually been found here. Is it a Denisovan skull or a new branch of the human family? #click=https://t.co/ejyHHl5IGD" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/2021/06/25/sci…

@ibeckermayer @rothstein_jesse @langwiser @richardludlow @mattyglesias The same is true for within schools. Teachers's algorithms for assigning grades vary widely and in many cases include factors disconnected to content or learning outcomes.

@UCSF_Alumni @UCSFMedicine Hear her story at #TheNocturnists thenocturnists.com/season-2/2019/…

Michele DiTomas, MD'00, works in a cement building surrounded by razor wire that...is home to one of the nation’s first prison hospice units. 🩺 Discover how this @UCSFMedicine alumna day after day cares for people dying behind bars: alumni.ucsf.edu/stories/michel… #UCSFalumni #UCSFproud

Hear her story about compassionate release on the #TheNocturnists. thenocturnists.com/season-2/2019/…

@gjladson @Edu_Historian @HaveYouHeardPod Dr. Ladson-Billings- I heard you and your work has truly inspired me!

@Edu_Historian @HaveYouHeardPod Wow... it only took 14 years for somebody 2 hear me?