Showing posts with label confirmation bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confirmation bias. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 June 2012

Confirmation bias in the British free schools debate

Since Kevin Courtney, a journalist at the Guardian, recently engaged in confirmation bias regarding the effects of school choice and for-profit schools in Sweden, I blog about what all the research - not only the one that's cherry picked by Courtney - can tell us about the impact of the Swedish voucher programme on educational achievement and equality.