One thing that people often misunderstand about statistics is that every statistic means something only in comparison to something else. A different comparison point changes how you perceive the exact ...

One thing that people often misunderstand about statistics is that every statistic means something only in comparison to something else. A different comparison point changes how you perceive the exact ...

The education reform movement has made the needs of students at risk for academic failure a key focus. Both nationally and at the state and district levels, many elements of reform have been devised ...

You can’t have a functioning democratic state without a literate population. That’s been recognised since at least the mid-Victorian era. The 1867 reform act expanded the franchise to many ...

The FINANCIAL — Recently I was asked by a dear friend to explain how a social scientist can pretend to know the opinions of an entire country by only polling a thousand people. The FINANCIAL — ...

Failure to complete high school has been recognized as a social problem in the United States for decades and, as discussed below, the individual and social costs of dropping out are considerable.

Regarding the Nov. 10 op-ed on crime statistics by Richard Rosenfeld and Janet Lauritsen, “Did violent crime go up or down last year? Yes.”: Discrepancies in such numbers not only cause confusion but ...

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