The Bush administration allowed states to phony-up statistics on everything from graduation rates to student achievement to teacher training and state education standards.
During the debate, the two leaders traded statistics on everything from the price of eggs to unemployment, occasionally waving graphs and polls at each other to support their arguments.
Mr Grant tells the story well, though he mars it with a chronology that is confusing at times and the frequent, excruciating recitation of statistics on everything from Americans' annual coal consumption to US Steel's assets.The government confronted many of the questions that have since dominated economic policymaking.
Chief Reilly was a key figure within Teams, or the "total efficiency accountability management system," in which statistics were kept on everything from overtime costs to building repairs, and supervisors were held accountable for meeting goals.
"If you look at the statistics of people coming, you look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything coming in illegally into this country it's mind-boggling!" he said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday night.
"Well if you look at the statistics of people coming, you look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything coming in illegally into this country it's mind-boggling!" Trump said to host Don Lemon in a clip shown on "The Situation Room".
"If you look at the statistics of people coming... you look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything coming in illegally in this country, it's mind-boggling!" Trump declared during an interview on CNN last year, citing as evidence a 2014 story published by Fusion that investigated the prevalence of sexual assaults against migrant women and girls en route to the United States.
On October 23rd the second version of the London Datastore, a huge trove of information on everything from crime statistics to delays on the Tube, was launched.
Associations representing private colleges and universities, state universities and large research universities have been working to develop formats and common sets of statistics that would enable easy comparison on everything from class size to what students do after graduation.
I really submerged myself into the subject, read up on the history, the statistics, and everything I could get my hands on for a good week or two.
In Connecticut, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's @GovMalloyOffice account has also been regularly publishing updates on everything from road openings to power failure statistics.
