On February 16, the Data Quality Campaign will release its annual scorecard and analysis of states’ ability to collect and use data to improve student success. In anticipation, this six-part series highlights key ideas from our recent “Next Decade of Educational Data” event.
In the clip below, Sharron Bates, Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and part of the team that recently developed our country’s National Broadband Plan, outlines several of the technical difficulties that prevent better usage of data. In particular, she laments instructional programs that can’t exchange data, noting that they might “talk data-driven instruction” but only with a slice of the data.
Chad Aldeman 
Kristen Amundson 
John E. Chubb 
Constance Clark 
Peter Cookson Jr. 
Thomas Dawson 
Joni Finney 
Andrew Gillen 
Sara Mead 
Sarah Rosenberg 
Jeff Selingo 
Ben Wildavsky 
Mandy Zatynski 
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3/28/2013 | Chad Aldeman’s Chart You Can Trust “The Evergreen Effect” is discussed in 
3/21/2013 | Andrew Gillen discusses net tuition and MOOCs with Kevin O’Neill on
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