{"id":8637,"date":"2013-12-08T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:50:50","slug":"on-the-falsification-of-educational-outcome-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/on-the-falsification-of-educational-outcome-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"On the falsification of educational outcome statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/files.libertyfund.org\/econtalk\/y2013\/Pritchetteducation.mp3\">latest EconTalk podcast<\/a> is a fascinating long interview with Lant Pritchett (Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard).  The first third of the programme discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/18\/the-gap-between-schooling-and-education\/\">widespread and systemic falsification<\/a> of educational outcome statistics for government-run education in the developing world, as detailed in Pritchett&#8217;s new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Rebirth-Education-19th-Century-21st-Century\/dp\/1933286776\/\">The Rebirth of Education<\/a><\/em>. I might also add that in some parts of the declining world, such as Russia, the educational and other statistics are <a href=\"http:\/\/mercury.ethz.ch\/serviceengine\/Files\/ISN\/140341\/ipublicationdocument_singledocument\/c0ae2f0e-1cbe-4543-91c7-027258063ba5\/en\/181_Bogomolov.pdf\">also suspected to be diverging<\/a> from reality. Nor is even the UK immune, as we now have rampant grade-inflation of degree classifications at the undergraduate level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest EconTalk podcast is a fascinating long interview with Lant Pritchett (Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard). &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/on-the-falsification-of-educational-outcome-statistics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-general-observations","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}