Sentences with phrase «why education data»

These are just a few more reasons why education data is hard to work with.

Not exact matches

«All the data allowed us to see why some students were struggling and also look at ways to meet the needs of students who needed more challenges,» VanScoy told Education World.

In a case study for The 74, Matt Barnum tries to unpack why the Louisiana Department of Education ended its data - sharing agreement with researchers from MIT and Duke after they released a study of the Louisiana voucher program that relied on just one year of outcome data.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

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That is why we have introduced major reforms through the Higher Education and Research Act, including the Transparency Duty which will require all universities to publish data broken down by gender, ethnicity and socio - economic background, shining a light on institutions that need to do more to widen access.»

Future leaders will need to become stronger in their abilities to present, in understandable language — and, preferably with compelling narratives, metrics, and data — why higher education matters to the betterment of society.

We cite a 2012 study in the Economics of Education Review by David Stuit of Basis Policy Research and Thomas Smith of Vanderbilt, using data from 2004, which found that teacher turnover in charters was double that found in traditional public schools (24 % vs. 12 %) and seeks to explain why that is the case.

Fischer and Blatt offer other examples of the range and depth of information on the Usable Knowledge site: how school systems can become «data wise,» by using test results to improve instruction; why education leaders need to overcome the universal «immunity to change» in order to move their organizations forward; how «teaching for understanding» is driving innovative use of distance learning for professional development; and what new insights from research brought a truce to the «reading wars.»

Here, they draw on their experience, as well as the best available research and data, to show why improving schools will require overhauling the way financing, incentives, and accountability work in public education.

Using data from the same EQAO tests reporting an overall increase in reading skills, People for Education investigates why these same students report that they like reading less.

That's why we have taken steps to make our league tables clearer and, in addition to our data, all schools must publish extensive information on their website - including pupil progress,» said a Department for Education spokesman.

That's why the U.S. Department of Education announced a program on Wednesday that seeks to encourage states to disaggregate data on Asian students.

District Administration - April 2009 -(Page 44) ResearchCenter AlgebrAic Thinking: EssEntials on Education data and rEsEarch analysis What It Is and Why It Matters By Carla Thomas McClure dents, algebra course work begins,» the National Mathematics advisory Panel said in 2008 in its final report.

What Should we Measure and Why: The Uses and Limits of Data in Improving Education (Posted May 01, 2010.)

That's why the California Department of Education sent letters to nearly 250 schools last month — including more than half of the schools in San Francisco Unified — asking them to re-check their attendance records after they submitted data to the state showing every one of their students had perfect attendance during the 2016 - 17 school year.

However rather than simply producing an article that crunches numbers from the publicly available data, like so many other media outlets are doing, why not do some real journalism and look to put this into the context of the education sector?

This is largely why I enlisted the assistance of Arizona State law school graduate Lin Edrington in seeking the Virginia Department of Education's (VDOE) VAM (SGP) data via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit (see pertinent files here).

* Why does ESEA / ESSA require schools to differentiate their planning, data analysis, and accountability provisions among different racial and ethnic groups... but NOT across the thirteen different disabilities included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?

A new article by Jason Tanz for Wired Magazine makes the argument that big data already reigns supreme, and for the most part helps us, in our lives, so why shouldn't it do the same in education?

Now, we realize that in this day and age not everybody needs a library card to be a brainiac (which is why we let this data carry only half the weight of the education data).

As data designers, we know a little something all about the value of visualization and why it's such an important teaching tool, so we are excited to see Artists for Education support so many hard - working teachers, students, and artists.