Do AP Exams Measure School Performance?

The Prince George’s County Maryland county executive, in his frustration over the performance of the school system has proposed to shift many of the responsibility for the school system from the elected school board to the county government. In the mist of the discussions the education reporter for the Washington post has put forth a […]

Posted by Larry on April 6th, 2013 | Comments Off on Do AP Exams Measure School Performance? Posted in Telling the Full Story, The Media, Where's the Data?

A less than informative graphic

Another example of graphics gone wild. This one appeared in the print edition of the Washington Post. I linked to the online edition of the story, but someone must have realized the full graphic just did not work as it does not appear (or at least I have not found it) in the online version […]

Posted by Larry on March 28th, 2013 | Comments Off on A less than informative graphic Posted in Graphics Visualization, The Media

The link between life expectancy and wealth

Last week the Washington Post published a piece “Long life, wealth go together, study says” The Post has an annoying habit by the way of changing the title of an article between the print and online editions of the paper. The online title is “Research ties economic inequality to gap in life expectancy” But what […]

Posted by Larry on March 18th, 2013 | 2 Comments Posted in Telling the Full Story, The Media
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