scholarly journals How State Education Agencies Acquire and Use Research in School Improvement Strategies

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Goertz ◽  
Diane Massell ◽  
Carol Barnes
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
State Education Agencies ◽  
State Education ◽  
Improvement Strategies ◽  
Education Agencies

scholarly journals Opening the black box of data-based school monitoring: Data infrastructures, flows and practices in state education agencies

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395171985331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Hartong ◽  
Annina Förschler
Keyword(s):  
Black Box ◽  
School Governance ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
State Education Agencies ◽  
State Education ◽  
The Us ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Data Infrastructures ◽  
Education Agencies

Contributing to a rising number of Critical Data Studies which seek to understand and critically reflect on the increasing datafication and digitalisation of governance, this paper focuses on the field of school monitoring, in particular on digital data infrastructures, flows and practices in state education agencies. Our goal is to examine selected features of the enactment of datafication and, hence, to open up what has widely remained a black box for most education researchers. Our findings are based on interviews conducted in three state education agencies in two different national contexts (the US and Germany), thus addressing the question of how the datafication and digitalisation of school governance has not only manifested within but also across educational contexts and systems. As our findings illustrate, the implementation of data-based school monitoring and leadership in state education agencies appears as a complex entanglement of very different logics, practices and problems, producing both new capabilities and powers. Nonetheless, by identifying different types of ‘doing data discrepancies’ reported by our interviewees, we suggest an analytical heuristic to better understand at least some features of the multifaceted enactment of data-based, increasingly digitalised governance, within and beyond the field of education.

Highlighted & Underlined

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Summer Institute ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Actual Cost ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
State Education Agencies ◽  
State Education ◽  
Elite Colleges ◽  
Education Agencies ◽  
Integrated Schools

State education agencies are coping with new responsibilities under ESSA. A new survey reveals differences in how members of different racial groups view U.S. schools. A consortium of high schools is developing a mastery-based transcript. A summer institute will help educators create more racially, ethnically, and socio-economically integrated schools. An online tool helps families understand the actual cost of elite colleges.

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