Evaluating Kahn

The government is spending nearly 3 million to evaluate the “efficacy” of Kahn Academy math tutorials. The research will be conducted by WestED and will follow the randomized-control methods proposed as the best way to eliminate the confounds present in  so much applied research. Careful research methods require this level of funding.

This evaluate effort seemed familiar and a search of my blog confirmed a similar evaluation of math software that was part of the original NCLB initiative.