Education portal helps decipher school info
Most of the tools available to learn how kids are doing in school require people to be computer savvy and to understand the language of education statistics. Researchers from the University of Washington are working to change that with a new online program that is dynamic and simple.
The Associated Press
Thanks to new federal rules, more and more information is available to the public about how kids are doing in school. Unfortunately, getting the information is a lot easier than understanding what it says.
Most of the tools available require people to be computer savvy and to understand the language of education statistics. Researchers from the University of Washington are working to change that with a new online program that is dynamic and simple.
The new education portal — the Washington Achievement Data Explorer or WADE — was launched this past week by the UW's Center for Education Data and Research. It looks across time at whether school districts
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