Districts Tracking Goals With ‘Balanced Scorecards’
Business-oriented tool weighs operations and outcomes for schools.
In the early 1990s, two business experts set out to design a new way to track corporate performance by looking not just at bottom lines such as profits and share prices, but at all the operations they felt were essential to achieving long-term success.
Today, their invention is catching on in education. Called the Balanced Scorecard, it is being used in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., and Richmond, Va., districts, many Georgia school systems have implemented it, and state leaders elsewhere are showing interest.
The scorecard is a kind of report card for a district or a school. Along with test scores, however, it includes data on factors that can affect student performance, such as teacher training, parental involvement, and the frequency with which school...
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