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The Numbers We Need: Bringing Balanced Scorecards to Education Data
Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 90, No. 9 (May 2009): pp. 665-669.
By Frederick M. Hess and Jon Fullerton
Though many schools and districts claim to be data-driven, they usually mean only that they are tracking student achievement scores in a systematic fashion. Such a standard falls dramatically short of what is needed to run a high-performing organization. Data-driven management, done right, requires collecting performance, operational, and financial data and then using them to drive improvment. This article examines the kinds of data that districts need to collect and the barriers to collecting such data, and then suggests first steps for overcoming those barriers. (5pp.)
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