This report offers district leaders practical information about data warehousing from eight districts that have successfully used this approach. The report discusses what a data warehouse is, technology and culture issues that data warehousing has the potential to address, key development and operational issues, lessons from the eight districts, and resources.
Recent Publications
The "achievement gap" — the ongoing racial inequality in public school education — has proven stubbornly persistent. Schools have employed a variety of measures in an attempt to reduce this academic divide; the emergence of education organizing as a school reform tactic offers a promising alternative, outlined in AISR's Center for Education Organizing publication...
At least rhetorically, Americans strongly support the twin goals of equity and excellence in education. But the evidence clearly shows that we are far from attaining either goal. What would it take to produce a truly equitable and excellent system for all young people? This issue of Voices in Urban Education offers five perspectives that challenge our way of thinking about equity and excellence. Articles by Lynda Powell Pruitt and Kenneth Jones, Jonny Skye Njie, Adam Levner, Michael Holzman...
What would it take to align a school district and outside partners in a citywide ?smart education system? that would reach the elusive goal of providing sustainable, high-quality education at scale? Drawing on lessons from four cities, the articles in this issue of VUE examine the challenges of achieving equity and scale; human capital development; cross-sector partnerships; community organizing strategies that combine collaboration and pressure; and data-informed decision-making.
High schools are now the "hot topic" in education reform. Dozens of school districts are hard at work creating new high schools and breaking up existing ones. But figuring out what should replace the old high school model is not as simple as the rhetoric might suggest. This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at the latest thinking on what it will take to create systems of excellent high schools that work for all students. Articles by Robert Rothman, Constancia Warren and Mindy...