criticism | Cloaking Inequity

“Does Not Compute”: Teach For America Mathematica Study is Deceptive?

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 16 comments

I’ll admit it. I am a sci-fi junkie. I am that lone person in the theater at a midnight showing on the release night of a new sci-fi film. Sometimes I am one of only 3 or 4 people in the theater. I should blame this probably on my parents who raised me on Star Trek, Star Wars, Twilight Zone,

Teach For America

New Mathematica TFA Study is Irrational Exuberance

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 34 comments

Teach For America (TFA) has sought to direct attention to a new study recently released by Mathematica. A blogger at the Washington Post even argued that my prior critiques of TFA were “not true anymore.” (See all of my prior posts on TFA here.) Is that the case? Next week I will start an entire series on the Mathematica TFA