History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Calculating student success with credit score tools
- 07-01-2011
-
By Andrew Lenoir/Huffington Post
The same predictive analytics used to create credit scores and insurance premiums are now guiding public education. By gathering information on students and teachers, experts can forecast an elementary schooler's chances of graduating from high school and likelihood of success in college, or see if a new instructors style matches a school's philosophy. The San Jose Unified School District has become a front runner of the controversial new technique, assessing dropout risk by utilizing 15 years of academic, behavioral, social development and health data, in addition to subjective assessments from students, parents and teachers. (more...)
Send this
Print this
