Richard P. Phelps

Richard P. Phelps received degrees from Washington, Indiana, and Harvard Universities and a Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He taught secondary school mathematics in Burkina Faso, West Africa; was the first Coordinator of the World Education Indicators Programme at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris; worked at the U.S. General Accounting Office, Westat, National Evaluation Systems, ETS, ACT, and Indiana's Education Department; and is editor and co-author of Correcting Fallacies about Educational and Psychological Testing (American Psychological Association, 2008/2009) and Defending Standardized Testing (Psychology Press, 2005); author of Standardized Testing Primer (Peter Lang, 2007) and Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing (Transaction, 2003, 2005), lead author for several statistical compendia, and founder of the Nonpartisan Education Review ( http://nonpartisaneducation.org ). - See more at: http://richardphelps.net/