Transforming the lives of children living in
urban poverty through better health and education

Category:
Performance Driven Education

Insight into the reams of educational data collected daily could change everything. That belief drives our investments in performance-driven education, which uses objective, longitudinal data to fuel real-time insights and continuous improvement in every classroom and school in the country.

Infographic: Education Data for Progress

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May 8, 2012
by Editor
What could teachers do with a tool that integrates multiple education data sources into an easy-to-access, easy-to use-format? An infographic contrasts the nation's current, siloed approach to education data with the transformative potential of classroom access to integrated student-level data. Read more

‘Drill and kill’ testing: Just say “no”

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March 30, 2012
by Lori Fey
Morale in the teaching profession is at a 20-year-low, and too many schools across that nation are failing kids. For the sake of both students and teachers, states and districts must adopt a holistic and pragmatic approach to achievement-oriented rather than test-oriented learning. Read more