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Saturday, July 2, 2011

School Tech Connect: Ignore the Data Behind The Curtain! #NEARA11

School Tech Connect: Ignore the Data Behind The Curtain!

Ignore the Data Behind The Curtain!

The actual data will be ignored by the data-driven people. Why?

Because the data contradicts their noise machine. Read the whole thing. (It's so hard to decide whether to treat "data" as a singular or plural, btw.)

Anyway, the bottom line for charters vs. take-all, serve-all neighborhood schools is this:

The neighborhood schools have slightly more kids exceeding the standards.
The charter schools have slightly more kids meeting standards.
The neighborhood schools made more gains during this last round of testing.
I noticed the Brizard immediately lept on the single statistic that even came close to being