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3 ways our district avoids data overload

If teachers are overwhelmed with data, they won’t use it to inform their instruction. Here’s how we solved this challenge

District Management

Feds launch new education data tool

May 31, 2012January 25, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

The federal Education Department has launched a new website that aims to provide easy access to key state and national education data for all school stakeholders.

District Management

Should student test scores be used to evaluate teachers?

May 31, 2012January 12, 2011 by By Cara Erenben, Contributing Editor

The so-called value-added model is an “imperfect, but still informative” measure of teacher effectiveness, especially when it is combined with other measures, according to the preliminary results of…

District Management

Commentary: Data undermining

May 31, 2012February 17, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor

Unions are taking heat for their stance on using data to measure teacher quality, but school districts bear some responsibility, too.