The Dataman at Home, #1
Happy Valentine's Day to all the intrepid Data Men and Data Women of the World, machine men and machine women. They have "machine minds and machine hearts," sadly incapable of understanding anything that does not have some numerical value attached to it.
The Dataman (A Retake on "The Candy Man")
Mr. Geoffrey Canada used data magic to point to 100% graduation rates in 2012 at his Harlem Children's Zone. This very well funded charter should be commended for providing many important services to students, including free health care, dental checkups, class sizes under fifteen and two teachers in every room (http://dianeravitch.net/?s=GEOFFREY+canada+graduation+rate). Wouldn't it be nice if
2-13-14 V.A.M.: Value Added Measure
V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: The Costs of Trying to Game the Systems of the Educational Deformers: For Better or For Worse, For Richer, For "Richerer," In Sickness And In Health?Since 2007, the Bloomberg administration evaluated N.Y.C. schools by assigning single A-F grades. Due to this junk science, schools were closed, teachers turned into vagrant ATRs and communities split apart. Me