The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
ISBN: 0465036589
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Alex3917
· 2016-11-27
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Diane Ravitch writes about it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Great-American-School-System/dp...
The school was called Manual High School. If you just search for "Manual" within the book on Amazon you can see at least parts of the story, around page 207.
Alex3917
· 2016-06-11
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The problem is most of those aren't even true, e.g. c.f. my notes on VAM:
http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#vam-efficacy
http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#vam-statistical-prob...
http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#vam-implementation
Most of which are from the primary sources referenced in Diane Ravitch's book:
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Great-American-School-System/dp...
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Diane Ravitch has an entire book about this. If you read the two chapters about the epistemology of the statistics behind VAM, you can see it's actually pretty similar to Theranos, an idea that can't even work on principle regardless of the technology or how it's implemented:
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Great-American-School-System/dp...