Schools have become better at collecting data about student performance. This year's MEAP data included a comparison of student performance from last year to this year. Gone are the days of schools blaming results on a "bad" group of students. So what can we blame less than stellar results on?
Well, the good part of all the data is we now have an easier task of finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Our regional education center has invested in data crunching software to help schools find the needle. Now, I can find the gain of any group of students on any State or local benchmark.
Let the search begin.
posted by MiddleSchoolPrincipal @ 9:08 PM
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All this data is great, but what have we done with it and what direction are we going? It's only good as the paper it's on, if we don't come up with a plan for the very near future. The MEAP results we have are for these current students. By the time a plan gets into action, they will be moved on into the high school.
I'm concerned.
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