Mid-Institute Cleanliness Craziness
The Clean Data Competition was in full effect last week for the big mid-institute data collection here at the Teach For America Phoenix Institute. (Clean data = accurate results and faster aggregation time.) Apparently at least a few of the SOMs have set up some hospital-operating-room-style sterilization procedures, as the data was so clean that there was a three way tie after the first pass (congrats to Pastor, Campbell, and week three up-and-comer Rose Linda).
The Department of Data had to dust off the IOC rule book to determine tiebreaker methodology, and after several painstaking rounds of review, the inclusion of co-evaluation cleanliness, and the hiring of third-party tabulation services from Ernst and Young , the winner is…
Rose Linda Elementary School!
It’s one for the record books — who would have thought the Rose Lindians would be the comeback kids after last week’s 8th place showing? So stay tuned for a special blog feature on the mighty champions, coming soon to data blog near you (hint: it’s this one).