The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.
The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.
What was being done with the data was the problem, not the data gathering itself. All this means is that the data won’t exist. The underlying problems still will. Not a single thing you’ve said justifies the action you’re trying to justify.
Well it’s probably both.
Insights from the data probably were not being actioned, but I would strongly suspect that the data they are collecting simply doesn’t have a lot of predictive capacity.
However, I don’t work with that specific data. I work with related data.
The Western world is far too concerned with test scores when they are just complete and utter bs.
I would say a test score is accurate plus or minus 40 % in terms of a student’s understanding of a subject. They’re just arbitrary.
‘Data’ is not neutral! The point of collecting data on teachers and schools was always about control, pushing down pay, cutting benefits and cutting funding. That’s why these monitoring programs started, and continued to exist. A few naive people think that they might have some use in monitoring standards between schools, THEY DON’T. Pearson, Springer, and the other large education companies suck up much of the funding…not to the benefit of classrooms and students.
No, it’s not. It is actually possible to use this data wisely. Source: every other country with better education than the US.
American skills issue.