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Jay P. Greene
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Jay P. Greene's personal blog at jaypgreene.com covers economics and politics. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Jay P. Greene's blog covers education policy, especially charter school research and how reports and studies are presented. HN commenters link his posts as examples of critique of the Gates Foundation and of media coverage of charter results.
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Here is another example: "A Sea of Charter Schools in Detroit Leaves Students Adrift" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/for-detroits-children-... According to NYT: "half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit’s traditional public schools." According to data from the cited study: Half the charters perform significantly better, around half no significant difference, a small percentage (1% in rea…
Comment linking /2016/06/29/nyt-hatchet-job-on-charters/
on “We’re losing the information war”Submitted The Chutzpah of Abdulkadiroglu, Pathak, and Walters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis article reminds me of Bill Gate's emphasis on measuring outcomes - here's a quote from the Gates Foundation 2013 letter [1]: -------------- Begin Gates Quote --------------- Over the holidays I read The Most Powerful Idea in the World, a brilliant chronicle by William Rosen of the many innovations it took to harness steam power. Among the most important were a new way to measure the energy output of engines and…
Comment linking /2013/01/09/understanding-the-gates-foundations-measuring-effective-teachers-project/
on “Should Surgeons Keep Score?”Submitted The Dead End of Scientific Progressivism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot directly related to the topic, but for those who might interested, here is another piece of critique on Gates Foundation in education: How the Gates Foundation Spins its Research http://jaypgreene.com/2012/01/07/how-the-gates-foundation-sp... Quote: "With the latest round of reports, the Gates folks are back to their old game of spinning their results to push policy recommendations that are actually unsupported…
Comment linking /2012/01/07/how-the-gates-foundation-spins-its-research/
on “A Student-Data Collector Drops Out”