April 21, 2006

Government Analyst Says Shoddy Statistics Tell a False Tale About Higher Education

By DAVID GLENN

Policy organizations, education researchers, and the news media too often abandon their responsibility for "honesty, accuracy, and due diligence" in reporting on education data, according to a blistering lecture delivered here this month by Clifford Adelman, a senior research analyst at the U.S. Department of Education.

Mr. Adelman, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, argued that researchers, reporters, and legislators tend to lazily embrace

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