A new school year is upon us, and teachers across the country are returning to their classrooms recharged, bursting with ideas and brimming with optimism. What’s at the top of their to-do lists?

Arlington Public Schools has asked nearly 6% of all staff who have reported in-person for work to stay home temporarily because they tested positive for COVID-19. Among in-person students, the ...

Mackey: More than 1,400 educators are providing instruction to 10,000 kids in topics such as data collection, analysis, ...

Effective use of student data to inform instruction has the potential to transform U.S. schools, but thus far education leaders and policymakers have failed to give teachers sufficient resources or ...

Research suggests that when principals work directly with teachers in explaining how and why they should use data to improve their instructional practices, the effect on student achievement is more ...

Most educators are eager to analyze and then act on the data they see (van der Meij, 2008). Data forms a key component when determining which strategies are effective and in what ways. For example, if ...

Teachers from previous decades may have focused on “What did I teach?,” but the new focus is “What did the students learn?” Whether classroom resources are digital or not, educators can collect data ...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the challenges states face in preparing their data systems for the heavy lifting needed to implement Race to the Top and other major reform proposals. Experts at the ...

The state of California has processed a backlog of nearly 300,000 lab records related to Covid-19 and other cases, which will enable it to update its county monitoring list this week, Gov. Gavin ...