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    Data

    Meaningful analysis can rescue schools from drowning in data

    By Learning Forward
    August 2011
    Vol. 32 No. 4
    Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning have the potential to influence educational policy and practice in profound ways for the systems that are courageous enough to take them seriously, and the Data standard is a critical element systemwide. Schools are overwhelmed with data warehouses, colorful charts and graphs, and endless PowerPoint presentations. The millions of dollars that governments at all levels are investing in data systems will be wasted unless significantly greater attention is paid to the systematic evaluation of teaching and leadership decisions based on data. However, in many schools, the availability of data is inversely proportional to meaningful analysis. The reality is that many common practices substitute the appearance of data analysis for the reality of substantive analysis. To realize the achievement of

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    Authors

    Douglas B. Reeves and Tony Flach

    Douglas Reeves (DReeves@LeadandLearn.com) is the founder of the Leadership and Learning Center and Tony Flach (TFlach@LeadandLearn.com) is a senior professional development associate at the center. 

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