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Collin Hitt

Today, teacher evaluations are not used to inform personnel decisions. Therefore, on balance, they are not conducted with earnest. Therefore, they lack accurate information. Therefore, as poor meters of quality, they have no business being used to inform school-level policy. Therefore, they cannot be used to inform personnel decisions…

Richard B. Freeman, Stephen Machin, and Martina Viarengo

the highest-scoring countries are those with the least inequality in test scores, suggesting a “virtuous” equity-efficiency trade-off...

EduBubble

it’s all about getting warm bodies to apply and get rejected, just so the suckers who do get in feel good about spending so much...

Joanne Jacobs

What happens when a disorganized, dysfunctional school gets a bunch of computers? Nothing…