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How school districts can use rigorous program evaluation to test new education reforms: An interview with Matthew Lenard, Director, Data Strategy and Analytics, Wake County Public Schools – Episode #123

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

When schools or school districts implement district wide reform initiatives, how can they accurately determine if those reform efforts are having the positive effects that school leaders had hoped? How, in other words, can they move beyond anecdotes or simple trend data and rigorously evaluate their district wide reform initiatives? The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) — North Carolina’s largest school district — faced exactly those questions when it implemented a distr

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Data USA: Visualizing Government Data

Data.gov

Much has been written about open government data and its contribution to developing consumer applications such as Zoc Doc and Spot Crime. The data resources on Data.gov can also help researchers, policymakers, and planners make better informed decisions through the … Continued. The post Data USA: Visualizing Government Data appeared first on Data.gov.