New information systems track student progress: NCLB prompts districts to improve data collection.(NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND)

From: District Administration | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Dessoff, Alan | Copyright information

When the school board and superintendent of the Matanuska-Susitna, or Matsu, Borough School District in Alaska decided in 2002 to have the district's information systems audited, they found that the district had insufficient data about student attendance, grades, test results, graduation rates, and other measures of student and teacher performance. The system that the district was using to track what was happening in its classrooms was inadequate to perform such tasks, says Marie B...

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