Houston's experience with the Educational Value-Added Assessment System (R) (EVAAS) raises questions that other districts should consider before buying the software and using it for high-stakes decisions. Researchers found that teachers in Houston, all of whom were under the EVAAS gun, but who taught relatively more racial minority students,…

Differences in the corrected state rankings on Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores are explained by the percentage of students taking the test and by student composition by sex, race, and average family income. Higher state per capita educational expenditures are significantly related to higher average SAT scores. Policy implications are…

Conducting research in university classrooms is difficult because the lecture method stifles discussion and limits opportunities to observe student/professor interactions. A recent study found that university classrooms are probably as chilly for minority students as they are for women. Bias against foreign students is less discernible. Study…

Illustrates some problems associated with the statistics used in popular statistical reports. (Author/DW)