Tuesday, March 16, 2010

This guys is uneducated

The Quick and the Ed has been running a five-part series on smarter data systems.  Amusing how the final installment ends: 
We believe that when combined together, data intelligent teachers, data intelligent students, and data intelligent technologies will help us all finally realize the real benefits of all this data.
Oh, yes, we do so believe after spending all that money doing all those things, we will finally (!) start seeing real benefits.  Funny how the article doesn't quote a single teacher on the benefits of ARIS, New York City's student data system, which is featured in the article.  Also most amusing how the authors (and this is a common mistake among the folks who run our education systems, including those most "data-driven") are unaware that "data" is the plural of "datum."

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