Have You Heard: The Data Boyz: What *Counts* in Education Research?
As the latest episode of Have You Heard explores, the issue of what *counts* in education research is the subject of a heated debate. We invite economist Jesse Rothstein into the podcast studio to talk us through the rise of the *data boyz*: quantitative researchers who increasingly determine what matters. Rothstein talks VAM, physics envy, and what gets missed when education research only counts what can be counted. And here’s a link to the story we reference about the Louisiana legislators having it out over the question of whether New Orleans’ charter school experiment is a success.
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