Tag: Data

• HUFF POST: The Education System Is Failing Native American Students. Here’s Proof.

  Early last month, Barack Obama made his first visit as president to Indian Country, where he announced plans to revamp the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) in an effort to improve the agency’s federally funded Native American schools. Acknowledging a “crisis” in Native American education, Obama proposed giving local tribes more control over education so…

  July 21, 2014

  Article

  Barack Obama, BIE, Bureau of Indian Education, Data, Education

• Tracking Student Discipline

  Here is an article from ED Week regarding student data databases and their uses.  A quote: Years ago when teachers, administrators and school staff were looking to build early warning systems to catch children from falling through the cracks, they would keep attendance records, grades and whether the students were tardy or leaving early on a…

  Matthew Campbell

  November 4, 2013

  Article, Discussion

  Data, School discipline, Student

• NYT’s article on Protecting Student Data

  Here is a New York Times article regarding protecting student data in a growing educational technological industry.  A quote: On Tuesday, Senator Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, sent a letter to Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, about how K-12 schools are outsourcing management and assessment of student data, including intimate details like disabilities, to technology vendors.…

  Matthew Campbell

  October 22, 2013

  Article, Discussion

  Arne Duncan, Data, New York Times

• Use of Data by School Districts

  A good article regarding the evolving use of data by school districts.  A quote: Now, the bulk of student data is housed in a consolidated student-information system that teachers can use to create assessments, score them, and get the results analyzed immediately, giving them the power to adjust their teaching based on what they’re seeing and…

  Matthew Campbell

  October 2, 2013

  Article, Discussion, Legal

  Data, FERPA