A third area is building data systems that not only measure student success, but also inform teachers how to improve.

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Further, and of great importance, we engaged students by requiring them to keep student data notebooks.

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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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He had campaigned actively, participating in candidate forums, doing interviews on local television and radio and joining in calls for the city Housing Authority chairman's resignation and opposition to the way public school student data is being used in a state database.

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