Six principles for using data to hold people accountable
(By Alan Brandt – AP)
A new policy brief being released today by National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder examines the linkage between data-driven improvement and accountability in education. It was written by Andy Hargreaves and Henry Braun, professors in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, who in this post introduce the brief, which you can read in full here.
By Andy Hargreaves and Henry Braun
One of the most unlikely bestselling books and blockbuster movies of the past decade is a story about how baseball statistics turned from being a nerdy preoccupation of obsessive fans into a powerful tool for dramatically improving team performance. Michael Lewis’s Moneyball showed how insightful use of a range of performance statistics to select and deploy players boosted the underfunded Oakland Athletics to World Series standard, where they faced and often defeated teams with triple their
Khan Academy using contractors to check Web site’s videos
The high-flying online Khan Academy is using contractors to review the accuracy of many of its videos and to sort through complaints about specific videos that come through its Web site. Sal Khan, the academy’s founder, said in an e-mail that it became clear to him that “more process” was needed as his online enterprise has […]