Systems Dashboard Overview
The system dashboard provides a snapshot of the latest data on what schools are doing and how they are doing. The dashboard analyzes, organizes, and synthesizes the enormous, complex, nuanced, and rapidly growing database of research, school improvement initiatives, policies, student performance, and system performance. What follows are the four main parts of the dashboard.
This area of the site examines data on common practices including charter schools, school choice, increased funding, class size reduction, computer-assisted education, and accountability. These practices are analyzed to better understand the impact they have on critical outcomes.
Policy initiatives are explored with an emphasis on interventions designed to produce notable outcomes and those initiatives that fail. The various interventions and their impact on critical student, societal, and system outcomes are analyzed, reviewed, and reported on. Policies examined include Every Student Succeeds, Race to the Top, school turnaround, teacher evaluation, and Common Core.
The dashboard examines the overall performance of the education system in achieving critical goals that meet society’s needs. Data on progress in accomplishing meaningful equity, efficiency, participation, and long-range societal outcomes are offered for review.