Inaugural Overview of States’ Actions To Leverage Data To Improve Student Success

posted on March 22, 2010 16:26

Data are useful only when they are transformed into actionable information that people are able to access, understand and use. Thanks to federal, state and local investments of political will and resources, the education sector is on the cusp of becoming an information-based enterprise. But reaching this goal depends on states taking actions that change the historically entrenched culture of using data for compliance reporting into one that values analysis of data and prioritizes constant communication to all stakeholders of the education system. Only when students, parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers have timely and ready access to academic and performance data will their decisions, practices and policies be driven by relevant information.

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