{"bio": "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 \"The Malfunction of US Education Policy\" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), *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* ( https://nonpartisaneducation.org ). - See more at: https://richardphelps.net/", "name": "Richard P. Phelps", "links": [{"title": "home page", "url": "https://richardphelps.net", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Nonpartisan Education Review", "url": "https://nonpartisaneducation.org", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "https://nonpartisaneducation.org/MalfunctionAppendices.htm", "title": "References & Appendices for The Malfunction of US Education Policy", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "personal_name": "Richard P. Phelps", "alternate_names": ["Richard Phelps", "Philip Staradamskis"], "photos": [7905313], "key": "/authors/OL252843A", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-07-21T23:48:59.492228"}}