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When big data is bad data

The press and standardized testing numbers: a cautionary tale

By LynNell Hancock May 22, 2012 at 03:00 PM

Disks of never-before-released data from the Department of Education landed with a befuddling thud in New York City’s newsrooms at... More

Tested

Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement

By LynNell Hancock Mar 8, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Eleven New York City education reporters were huddling on e-mail last October 20, musing over ways to collectively pry... More

Waiting for Substance

A high-profile documentary shortchanges the education debate

By LynNell Hancock Oct 27, 2010 at 02:55 PM

I sobbed alongside my graduate students as we watched the ending of Waiting for Superman, the heat-seeking documentary that has... More

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