This Week In Education: Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

This Week In Education: Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

by john thompson

Over at the National Journal's education blog, Kati Haycock defined an effective teacher as an angel bending over a blade of grass who "whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’" Somewhere, I imagine, there must be statisticians sitting at their desks whispering to their growth models, "be good enough, good enough." Reformers have caused a huge mess for the Obama Administration because they raced ahead with the