A curious article in today's NY Times about the proliferation of high school honor societies and the difficulties that these seem to pose to college admissions board who are unsure about how to evaluate participation in those societies; see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/education/01honors.html?th&emc=th
Apparently this is becoming a widespread problem which has become the concern for some educational policy wonks, such as Chester E. Finn, Jr who is quoted in the article: |“This cheapens the currency,” ”said Chester E. Finn Jr., president |of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a nonprofit educational policy |group in Washington. “Once everyone’s wearing rhinestones, you |might not notice someone wearing diamonds.” For more on Mr. Finn see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_E._Finn,_Jr. Disclosure: for the longest time I confused this Finn with another educational researcher, Jeremy D. Finn who had developed the program MULTIVARAIANCE which, back in the 1980s, allowed one to do a variety of general linear model analyses, including repeated measures ANOVA, MANOVA, and other procedures. See the following article in the American Statistician announcing the release of the PC version. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2684303 It was one of the statistical packages put out by Darrell Bock's Scientific Software International (SSI) company which was best known for marketing LISREL (and providing workshops on Lisrel programming back in the 1980s at the University of Chicago; I attended one of these and one of my strongest memories about the UofC is that it had more churches and tennis courst per square foot than any other college/university I've ever seen). Has the high school honor society issue been relevant to any Tipsters? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
