West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

Showing posts with label Joel Klein. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Joel Klein. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Annotated "Evaluating New York Teachers, Perhaps the Numbers Do Lie"

As promised , here are some comments (in brackets) on Michael Winerip's NYT article on the city's teacher evaluation process. Last ...

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Oh, Canada -- another interesting omission in "Clean Out Your Desk"

We're back with our ongoing coverage of Ray Fisman's recent article in Slate which ran with the provocative tagline "Is firing...

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Joel Klein's Record

From Mark Gimein (via Felix Salmon ), here's a well-timed story from New York Magazine : New York City public-school kids may be dreadi...

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