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Spotlight on Data-Driven Decision Making
Essential news stories and Commentaries selected by Education Week editors
03/29/13 Delivering Data to Improve Schools
Our guests in this chat addreseds the necessary steps to share education data between districts and states, and how to provide meaningful data to teachers to help them improve instruction. Blogs & Community
01/10/13 Teaching Now: The Student-Data Overload
For most teachers today getting enough student data is no longer a problem. Knowing what to do with all of it is. Blogs & Community
04/18/13 K-12 Parents and the Public: Harvard Offers Tips for Sharing Data with Families
The Harvard Family Research Project has created a new resource for administrators, teachers, and families on how to share data effectively. Blogs & Community
05/29/13 Independent Schools, Common Perspectives: Data and Lore: Schools, Reputations, and Facts
We're stuck then, at least for the external world, with more lore than data in determining much of anything about a single school or even about independent schools as a whole. This may change in years to come, if only because accreditors are now requiring schools to show evidence of ways in which they have used data internally to make decisions about academic programs. The challenge for schools, then, will be how to collect useful data, how to analyze it in productive ways, and how to apply it well. Blogs & Community
07/25/13 Digital Education: Charter School Network Spawns Commercial School-Data Company
Schoolzilla, a data platform for schools that was developed as part of the Aspire charter schools network, will launch its own commercial business. Blogs & Community
07/25/13 Charters & Choice: New School-Data Company Grows Out of Charter School Network
Schoolzilla, a data platform for schools developed by the Aspire charter school network, is being launched as a private, for-profit company. Blogs & Community
03/04/13 Inside School Research: NAEP Scores Dragged Down By Students Who Missed Past School, Data Show
Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show wide gaps in performance for students who miss school. Blogs & Community
04/12/13 District Dossier: Secret Memo Suggests Cheating Likely Widespread in D.C. Under Rhee
A data analyst hired by Michelle Rhee to advise her on possible widespread cheating told the former chancellor that high rates of erasures needed more thorough investigation. Blogs & Community
03/18/13 Independent Schools, Common Perspectives: Big Data in Independent Schools: Assessing What We Value?
I find it encouraging that there are tools to actually assess what we value--critical thinking, problem-solving, writing, engagement and curiosity--and to give us support in valuing what we assess. Blogs & Community
05/21/13 Digital Education: Student Data Too Often a Tangled Web for Schools, Report Says
Schools are awash in data, but their tech systems lack "interoperability," or the ability to work together, a new report concludes. Blogs & Community
09/14/12 Curriculum Matters: NAEP Writing Exam Reveals Low Proficiency Rates
Based on new data from the "nation's report card," a lot of U.S. students are not "proficient" in writing, and the issue is especially alarming for black and Hispanic students. Blogs & Community
05/08/13 Louisiana Ends Data-Storage Arrangement with inBloom
The state schools chief decided to remove student data from non-profit inBloom’s database. Education Week
11/28/12 Digital Education: States' Inability to Share Data Seen as Creating Knowledge Gaps
Data on graduation rates, postsecondary success, and the efficacy of teacher preparation programs are three important areas affected by the lack of collaboration. Blogs & Community
03/14/13 Fragmented Data Systems a Barrier to Better Schools, Experts Say
Many districts and states struggle to provide meaningful, real-time data about student performance to educators. Research & Reports

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