Washington Post
In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to
physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’
lessons. This involves “galvanic skin response” bracelets that kids
would wear so their engagement levels could be measured.
If this tells us anything, it is that the obsession with measurement and data in school reform has reached new nutty heights.-[Full Article]
