Comments on: MacArthur grants announced; 23 lucky people to follow, or not http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/macarthur-grants-announced-23-lucky-people-to-follow-or-not/ Striving for accuracy in history, economics, geography, education, and a little science Tue, 21 May 2013 18:52:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ed Darrell http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/macarthur-grants-announced-23-lucky-people-to-follow-or-not/#comment-247812 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:44:28 +0000 http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/?p=20189#comment-247812 Raj Chetty is one of the MacArthur Fellows named in the post above:

Professor Chetty acknowledged, “Of course there are going to be mistakes — teachers who get fired who do not deserve to get fired.” But he said that using value-added scores would lead to fewer mistakes, not more.

In The New York Times, “Big study links good teachers to lasting gain,” January 6, 2012, page A1.

]]> By: brentn http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/macarthur-grants-announced-23-lucky-people-to-follow-or-not/#comment-247330 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:49:57 +0000 http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/?p=20189#comment-247330 Yeah, Jonah Lehrer. Tragedy, I think, rather than irony. He is not the first to crack under that kind of pressure and he will certainly not be the last.

]]> By: The 2012 MacArthur Fellows | Brent Neal http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/macarthur-grants-announced-23-lucky-people-to-follow-or-not/#comment-247329 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:43:50 +0000 http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/?p=20189#comment-247329 [...] grateful to Ed Darrell for breaking the news when I was sound asleep! Share this:TwitterFacebookTumblrEmailLike [...]

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