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U.S. Education Deserves the Same Statistical Sophistication as Baseball and Elections

by aristotlethewise

U.S. Education Deserves the Same Statistical
Sophistication as Baseball and Elections

by Martin Carnoy
(Co-authored with Richard Rothstein)
For better or worse, we’re a nation that’s coming to respect statistics. Billy Bean convinced us that better statistics could beat bigger payrolls in sports. Nate Silver helped humble Karl Rove’s money machine with better statistics. So maybe it’s time to take a more careful look at the international test statistics judging how good our nation’s schools are.
Just last month, when the new Third International Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS) scores were