The Cranky Analyst
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Low-Hanging Fruit for the Cranky Analyst: Gross Misinterpretation of Statistics
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The National Center for Education Statistics just put out a report on the employment experiences of new teachers. StudentsFirst grabbed th...
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Good news: a failing charter school is shut down
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The key idea behind charter schools is that good ones should be expanded and bad ones shut down. This is working in East Palo Alto, where th...
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Weil & the "Evidence of Experience."
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Reading Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives , by Michael Specter. Fun ...
Monday, January 11, 2010
Charter Schools Close the Achievement Gap
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I have been happily working with a killer set of co-authors recently: Josh Angrist , Parag Pathak and Chris Walters of MIT, Tom Kane of Ha...
Friday, October 2, 2009
This is Transparency? This is Data-Driven Education Policy?
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A letter to parents was in my kids’ backpacks this week. It’s about whether teachers at their school and in their classrooms meet the No C...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Progress on Reforming Federal Aid
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While the nation has been storming and heckling and angst-ing over health insurance reform, there has been a productive conversation and q...
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