“For decades, districts have used analytical tools. When you ran a report in your Student Information System or built a pivot table in Excel, the process was straightforward: You decided what to measure (attendance below 80%, GPA drop over 0.5 points), The system counted and calculated based on your rules, You got results you could […]
Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.
Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.
– Peter Nilsson