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Ben Goldacre’s Bad Evidence should be Good News for liberals
by Stephen Tall on January 3, 2013
If you’ve any interest at all in evidence-based public policy, then do listen to Ben Goldacre’s Bad Evidence, available for the next 6 days on BBC iPlayer here. It’s a fascinating exploration of the issues around using randomised control trials (…)
The 446 state schools where poorer children perform better than average
by Stephen Tall on May 12, 2012
One of the biggest questions in education is the extent to which schools can make a difference to the lives of the children they teach. Put more fatalistically, if you’re born poor does that mean you will perform poorly at (…)