I recently sat through a presentation on American education filled with heavy data about how the opportunity gap is ballooning while kids' academic progress and social and emotional well-being are in...
When managed correctly, educational data can provide educators and administrators with tools to effectively personalize learning plans, manage academic interventions, support students’ wellness, and...
During my freshman-year orientation in college, in the fall of 1997, several people asked me if I knew Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the queen of Tejano music. It struck me as a strange question. The...
Student data. Standardized testing. Accountability. These words set off a lot of big feelings among parents, educators and policymakers — especially fear and anger. Controversies over testing,...
As the school year begins, we hear lots of deficit-laden words like “Title I,” “tough,” “low-income,” and “low-achieving” to describe primarily Black and brown students in schools. Where does this...