December 2002Data-Driven DistrictsApplying statistical proof to multiple purposes
by Scott LaFee
Four districts that take different approaches to using data to inform key decisions.
Similar Reading: Data in the hands of school boards; and The Lingo of Data-Driven Decisions and Additional Resources and The Will and the Way of Data Use and A Forum for Becoming Data Savvy
by Jane Sanborn
Data can be used to beef up professional development activities.
Similar Reading: FAQs: Starting Targets and First Steps and Resources
by Dennie Palmer Wolf
A director at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform says accountability systems are failing to measure student growth over time.
by Robert J. Monson
The public needs more than test scores to gauge a school’s effectiveness, says a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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by Denis P. Doyle
Informed professional judgments go well beyond the simple use of data, the co-founder of SchoolNet Inc. suggests.
Phyllis L. Amick by Jay P. Goldman
Acquiring Donated Computer Equipment by Jim Lynch
Getting Satisfied Citizens To Pass Your Budget by John R. Gratto
Cost Cutting Through Onion Layers by Thomas M. Joynt
What’s Right About the Superintendency? by William L. Sharp, Bobby G. Malone and James K. Walter
The Challenges of a New Presidency by John R. Lawrence
The Act, Not the Gift, That Matters by Paul D. Houston