Friday, July 2, 2010

School Tech Connect: Let Freedom Ring

School Tech Connect: Let Freedom Ring

Let Freedom Ring

This is what happens when a nation's ed policies place extremely high stakes on reading sub-skill tests and math tests.

I jest, of course. I hate when people make sweeping statements from really focused data points. Poll data is like Wikipedia; you have to triangulate it against other sources to mine its value. Even the best polls are really just snapshots, and they record only the responses of a relatively filtered segment of the population: the peoplewho still answer the phone to strangers.