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Look to districts for innovative use of data
- 10-20-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
In Sacramento, the partially completed statewide student data system, CALPADS, has become mired in a power struggle over the management and oversight of the system. But in Fresno, Long Beach, and San Jose, districts aren’t waiting around for the state to finish a colossus. They and a few well-run charter organizations have built their own data systems that are doing what CALPADS, as currently designed, won’t provide: fast and ready information to guide teachers’ decisions in the classroom and administrators’ judgments in working with teachers. These systems are models for other districts, and they should steer the Legislature and governor as they consider what’s next for CALPADS (assuming it doesn’t implode). That was a message at a conference Tuesday in Mountain View, “From Inputs to Outputs: The Power of Data and Technology to Close the Achievement Gap.” (more…)
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