The Huffington Post – Aimee Rogstad Guidera
“National high school graduation hit a record high this year — 81 percent — and thousands of students who just received their high school diplomas wouldn’t have done it without the use of data. We cannot afford to undermine this progress. Yet we see across the country efforts to curtail the effective use of data to support student achievement. The infrastructure and use of data to support students has grown tremendously over the last decade. We now have tools that alert educators when students are at risk of falling off track. We have programs that identify opportunities for students, like scholarships, they may not be aware of otherwise. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg for good data use. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has seen astonishing gains for students in the 10 years that it’s been tracking the use of data in education.”(more)