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Pie charts | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 1 views

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Chris Harrow on 15 Jul 12

Perhaps one of the worst displays of statistical information I've seen.

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Emory scandal: Critics doubt college ratings | ajc.com - 0 views

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college statistics Emory US News & World Report lies

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“I’ve always questioned the rankings’ validity,” Taylor said. “It’s marketing, and when we talk about marketing, it’s selling.”
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Many parents won’t even consider sending children to colleges that fail to earn high marks.
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“There are lies, damned lies, statistics and rankings,” the website says. He defined this mania as “paying too much attention to the rankings and looking for status vs. making the right fit for a person.”
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The school reported SAT and ACT data for admitted students instead of enrolled students. That artificially inflated Emory’s test scores.
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APS officials want erasure analysis thrown out | www.wsbtv.com - 0 views

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shared by Chris Harrow on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached

The lawyer for four high-ranking Atlanta Public Schools officials told Channel 2 Action News he will ask a judge to throw out an erasure analysis that is key to many of the allegations against his clients in the CRCT cheating scandal.
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Lawson told Winne regarding the 2009 and 2010 CRCT erasure analysis ordered by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, “it’s not sound, scientifically and statistically.”
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Is forensic evidence trustworthy? - Boing Boing - 0 views

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fingerprint statistics crime evidence

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Science in fiction affects our ability to understand science in real life.
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Even ideas you think you can trust implicitly—like fingerprint evidence—turn out to have serious flaws that are seriously under-appreciated by cops, lawyers, judges, and juries.
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Chris Harrow on 17 Apr 12

A surface-level report that might compel some students to look much deeper.

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Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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If you could "fix" or re-direct math education, what would you do? IMO, Arthur Benjamin NAILS it in this brief 3ish minute video.

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Hans Rosling: Religions and babies | Video on TED.com - 3 views

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hans rosling TEDtalks world population logistic statistics precalculus

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Chris Harrow on 24 May 12

Excellent visualizations and explanations on world population growth. Particularly good is the modeling of world population with boxes beginning around 10:30, but the entire talk is definitely worth it!

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Are Independents Just Partisans In Disguise? : It's All Politics : NPR - 0 views

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I wonder how we could use this in classrooms where we're attempting to teach our students to be open to new ideas and perspectives.

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Things I Know 273 of 365: Value added isn't at Autodizactic - 1 views

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learning regression statistics assessment value added

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there is a natural spread to knowledge and growth that is beyond the influence of a teacher or the fact that different combinations of teachers in the life of a student in a given year could have varying effects on achievement.
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Estimates of value added are unstable across models, courses that teacher might teach, and years.
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Superstar teachers | Harvard Gazette - 1 views

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Top educators boost students’ earnings, living standards, study says
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Chris Harrow on 19 Jun 12

Interesting use of a data set.

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The Joy of Stats - Gapminder.org - 2 views

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statistics Rosling documentary math

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Chris Harrow on 28 Sep 11

"Hans Rosling says there's nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010. "

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Beth Holland on 29 Sep 11

The data sets are fantastic for teaching about the analysis of real-world data sets. Also good for explaining the pitfalls of data visualization. I've used this with students as young as 8th grade and also incorporated the works of Edward Tufte with it (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The data sets are fantastic for teaching about the analysis of real-world data sets. Also good for explaining the pitfalls of data visualization. I've used this with students as young as 8th grade and also incorporated the works of Edward Tufte with it (<a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/</a>).</div>

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Robert Ryshke on 30 Sep 11

This is a good site Chris. Thanks! Bob

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The Success of African-American Students in Independent Schools - 5 views

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judy osborne on 31 Oct 11

Over the past five years — at the request of concerned independent school educators, and with funding from independent schools and a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health — we've conducted extensive research on the experiences of African-American students in independent schools.

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Robert Ryshke on 31 Oct 11

Seems to me that you should report on these findings to the Administrative Team in the very near future. Bob

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judy osborne on 01 Nov 11

Last year's report and conversation around the need for affinity group dialogue with the administrative team included statistics and plenty of personal and national stories pointing to the importance of addressing race/culture and learning, particularly as it relates to a discussion around whiteness and the culture of "niceness" within our schools. This article is 8 years old and not much has changed at many schools. Thanks for reading it! Please pass along to your team colleagues if you can?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Last year's report and conversation around the need for affinity group dialogue with the administrative team included statistics and plenty of personal and national stories pointing to the importance of addressing race/culture and learning, particularly as it relates to a discussion around whiteness and the culture of "niceness" within our schools. This article is 8 years old and not much has changed at many schools. Thanks for reading it! Please pass along to your team colleagues if you can?</div>

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Robert Ryshke on 03 Nov 11

Why is the change in this area so slow?

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