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How data can change education

How data can change education

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How data can change education

- I've seen direct impacts of my work at school sites. There's an issue in education where a lot of the testing of students to gauge where they're at in terms of how well that they've covered their common core standards. Those assessments happen at the end of the year. And so there's a whole school year period of time where we don't really have a great sense of how students are doing. And a lot of my role at alliance has been to provide data sets that allow school leaders and teachers to determine how students are progressing in their courses. And that's been really important to teachers and school leaders to be able to adjust course during the school year to make sure that all of the content that they're expected to cover during the school year is actually being covered and being understood by students. The best parts of my job are being able to explain to people that I work with something that really changes how they…

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