American Educational Research Association‘s Eduational Change Special Interest Group presents: Lead the Change Series: Q & A with Amanda Datnow. Amanda Datnow discusses how schools can effectively use data for school improvement.
Excerpt: “Many schools and schools systems were drawn to the idea of data-driven decision making as high stakes accountability policies came to the fore. The problem, from my perspective, is that data-driven decision making has been conflated with testing and test data.”