*Correction: The $160,000 lifetime loss is not per student, but for all the students who were taught by that teacher that year. Per student, the income loss ranges between $42 and $133 per year.

oh my goodness. thank you for that correction! i misunderstood during the presentation. I will correct that right now.

$160,000 -- That’s the effect of a single teacher, in a single year. If a student encounters several grade-inflating teachers, the income losses add up. Read more in my story, "Easy A's, lower pay: Grade inflation's hidden damage" (3/3) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

[email protected] estimates when a teacher doles out grades that are inflated (0.2 or more points on a 4-point scale, the difference between a B and almost a B-plus), a student in that class loses about $160,000 in lifetime earnings, measured in present dollars. (2/3)

Fascinating anecdotes... sobering lessons. Similar (perhaps worse) upheaval and trauma compared w/Covid. But colleges were unable to help students recover academically or psychologically. Instead they "aged out of it" and waited for replacement students. (2/2) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Bottom line: This is a high stakes data collection that could trigger investigations and law suits and the early going is very messy. (10/10) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

One tiny indication that this was a rush job is in the Federal Register notice. Both enforce and admissions are misspelled in a proposal that’s all about admissions enforcement. Those words are spelled “admssions” and “enforece.” (9/10)

Federal education data collections typically take years to design, with multiple rounds of analysis, technical review panels, and revisions. This one moved from announcement to launch in a matter of months. (8/10)

6. College need to submit 7 years worth of data, going back to 2019. But prudent data retention policy is sometimes to purge unneeded sensitive student data. Some colleges delete data for students who never enrolled after 1-3 years and so years of data may not exist. (7/10)

5. Even tiny, not very selective colleges must do this OMB estimates the admistrative burden will be 200 hours per college -- and 2,200 colleges must comply. That adds up to 440,000 hours -- or 50 years worth of additional federal regulatory compliance. (6/10)

4. Male or female are the only choices for sex. Colleges, however, may collect sex or gender information using additional categories, such as nonbinary. But there's no "unknown" or "other" option on the spreadsheet they need to upload. (5/10)

3. Family income is missing for students who don't complete financial aid forms -- about 45 percent of all students. (4/10)

2. Many students don't report test scores with test optional admissions. That's more missing data. (3/10)

1. They have to "unweight" inflated GPAs onto a 4.0 scale, which is difficult or impossible. So they'll have to type in "unknown" for many, if not most students. (2/10)

Thank you. I didn't know about this book.

I expected low-income children to be most affected by having only one parent at home. But the data show the opposite. High-income children suffer the largest academic penalty for living in a single-parent household. Not much difference in test scores for low-income kids. (2/2)

The lesson here isn't that teachers should use more math terms in their lessons. But that if you're a principal and you want a leading indicator or a sort of biomarker of a good math teacher, you should pick one who regularly uses math words and understands them. (4/4)

If a teacher with weak conceptual understanding of mathematics suddenly started using more math terms, or handed out worksheets of math vocab, I wouldn't expect her (or his) students to improve on the annual math assessments. (3/4)