Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The Educated Reporter: Guest Post: Data Offers Education Reporters Fresh Angles on Familiar Stories

The Educated Reporter: Guest Post: Data Offers Education Reporters Fresh Angles on Familiar Stories:


Guest Post: Data Offers Education Reporters Fresh Angles on Familiar Stories

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) held its annual meeting in San Francisco last week, and I asked The Hechinger Report's John Marcus to share a guest post.

The Common Core State Standards. Teacher quality. College access.

None of these are particularly new topics on the education beat. But they can be reported in new ways using data, according to researchers who collect it.

Take the Common Core. Data shows that states whose education standards are already closest to the Common Core do best, said Bill Schmidt, co-director of the Center for the Study of Curriculum at Michigan State