Blaming the secondary for the troublse the Baltimore Ravens are experiencing on defense this season has become common, but statistics reveal a deeper problem. Hidden in the numbers, there’s a fatal ...

In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

I was thinking more about David Brooks’s anti-data column from earlier in the week, and I realized what is really bothering me. Brooks expresses skepticism about numbers, about the limitations of raw ...