This week I am blogging from the NASSP Conference in San Francisco. I used to say, "show me the data." However, it has gotten to the point that I no longer need to look at a school’s data to know that a school is thriving or struggling. I can simply listen to what the staff [...]
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PISA: It’s Poverty Not Stupid
December 15th, 2010
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"There are three kinds of lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics."–Mark Twain The release of the 2009 PISA results this past week has created quite a stir and has provided ample fodder for public school bashers and doomsayers who further their own philosophical and profit-motivated agendas by painting all public schools as failing. For whatever [...]
Math Teacher Teaches MLB A Lesson
September 14th, 2010
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Thirty-one year old, Bobby Cramer, won his big league debut by pitching the Oakland Athletics over the Kansas City Royals 3-1. The ESPN SportsCenter hosts jumped all over this story because Cramer is a former math teacher. They showed math equations of two of his pitches using distance and time to calculate the speed of [...]
