The Council of Great City Schools, a research and policy group that represents large districts, commissioned a study that found districts making the most progress had stable leadership, high academic goals for students, quality professional development for teachers and data analysis that helped alter teaching.
Teachers need access to data and resources that will allow them to personalize learning quickly and efficiently.
As the simple uses begin to drive use cases that shed increasingly rich data, there will be new opportunities to build businesses based on analytics and the meaningful presentation of rich new data to teachers, parents, students, and others who have an interest in teaching and learning.
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By focusing on data analytics, teachers can study learning in far more nuanced ways.
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The Obama Administration has repeatedly expressed support for merit pay and using student data to evaluate teachers.
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The letters will go via their head teachers because of concerns about data protection, Universities Minister David Willetts said.
Teachers learned how to use data from newly adopted assessments to design differentiated instruction based on Common Core standards.
Teachers took ownership of assessments, data analysis, and selecting interventions for students.
The UIS presents data concerning the number of teachers who have received minimum training.
The Chicago Teachers Union is adamantly against detailed, data-driven score-keeping and accountability.
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Mr. FELCH: Well, the big takeaway from our series - and after, you know, spending a lot of time analyzing this data - is that individual teachers really matter.
These findings might not surprise the schools' head teachers, who get a package of data each autumn which shows them how well they are performing compared with other similar schools.
Some of the exciting new investments states are making include development of new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) schools or programs, new pipelines for teachers and leaders, and building robust data systems to improve instruction.
It is too early to determine if the initiative is the reason that we are meeting out desired outcomes, but early data does support that Phase One teachers are seeing increases in student learning from state test scores to performance-based measures.
The census data also shows thousands of secondary school teachers are taking lessons in subjects that they have not studied at degree level.
Data from 2008 indicate that hours spent by teachers on instruction is higher in the US than in any other OECD country.
Kickboard was developed in 2009 as a tool for teachers to make better decisions in the classroom based on reliable data on each student.
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As one factor among many, test scores can provide useful data, but as the primary means of evaluating teachers test scores are too unreliable.
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The National Union of Teachers has made several freedom of information requests for reports and data used by the government when determining which free schools to approve.
Gayle Fallon, head of the Houston Federation of Teachers, says the Arnolds are misguided in their relentless pursuit of data.
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Mr. Bloomberg, by contrast, has been a staunch supporter of releasing the data and frequently clashes with the city's main teachers union.
One is that Reed primarily sells not advertising or entertainment but the dry data used by lawyers, doctors, nurses, scientists and teachers.
One is that Reed is primarily selling not advertising or entertainment but the dry data used by lawyers, doctors, nurses, scientists and teachers.
Indeed, the rush to collect and use data should focus on how it could help school administrators, not teachers.
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So we're challenging states to raise standards, to use data to better inform decisions, to recruit and retain more good teachers, and to promote stronger curricula that encourage young people to not only learn the facts in a textbook, but to explore and discover the world around them.
Nationally collected data in each of the five countries pointed to high percentages of untrained teachers.
The United Federation of Teachers opposed New York City's recent release of teacher rankings, saying the data were part of a pilot project and contained unreliable information.
Some of the teachers boycotting the test there say they aren't opposed to using student-achievement data in evaluations but are unhappy with the current exam.
Reliable ethnicity data for the whole profession is not available, but 9% of newly qualified teachers were from non-white backgrounds.
Back in February, Ms Gilbert urged teachers to write and complain to her about inspectors' over-zealous use of school performance data.
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