Educators are experiencing metrics mania, the overvalued use of numbers to gauge and measure complex social phenomena that results in oversimplified understandings and unintended consequences. This short read provides a[...]

Moore Johnson, Susan. Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2019. Drawing from three intensive studies, the author details a variety of conditions contributing to[...]

Muller, Jerry Z. The Tyranny of Metrics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). This book offers a balanced and insightful analysis of how measurement criteria are used and misused in efforts[...]