Author: Richard P. Phelps
Alternate names: Richard Phelps; Philip Staradamskis
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/