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"Welcome to the Arizona Charter Schools Association's Education Evaluator. The Education Evaluator is an easy, transparent way to view and compare enrollment information, student achievement and student funding data for all public schools in Arizona. It is a useful tool that illuminates the abundance of school choice in Arizona."

"The Direct Assessment Tracking Application (D.A.T.A.) is designed to allow users to precisely measure how often and how long events occur over time. The application can be used to conveniently and inconspicuously collect data on a wide range of events in a variety of settings. "

"2015 - Low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation's public schools, according to this research bulletin. The latest data collected from the states by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), show that 51 percent of the students across the nation's public schools were low income in 2013."

"EducatorsHandbook.com is the only tool that produces robust data on student behavior while reducing the time you spend managing student discipline."

"he analysis aims to offer greater insights into reading comprehension. The first-of-its-kind National Assessment of Educational Progress report suggests a consistent relationship between performance on vocabulary questions and the ability of students to comprehend a text, which experts say is consistent with prior research on the subject."

"But a Plain Dealer/StateImpact Ohio analysis raises questions about how much of an equalizer it truly is, even as the state ramps up its use. The 2011-12 value-added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value-added results than those that serve more-affluent ones."

"Take a look at Pew Research Center's top findings of the year that told us a bigger story about the trends shaping our world."

charts of Ohio's charter school performance

"We are pleased to announce that Thinkgate has been awarded the Ohio / Massachusetts Joint Statewide IIS contract to provide an instructional improvement solution for schools throughout the two states."

"Every year, more than 1 million students-that's 7,000 every school day-do not graduate from high school on time. Nationwide, only 69 percent of students earn their high school diplomas. Among minority students, only 56 percent of Hispanic, 54 percent of African American, and 51 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native students in the U.S. graduate with a regular diploma, compared to 77 percent of white students and 81 percent of Asian Americans."

"Learn more about the DBI Framework, meet Center Staff, visit the Tools Charts to find evidence-based progress monitoring tools or interventions, and view the DBI Training Series to find professional development materials to support the Implementation of DBI in schools and districts."

"The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations."

Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters: A KIDS COUNT Special Report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation Children who read on grade level by the end of third grade are more successful in school, work, and in life. This KIDS COUNT special report affirms a commitment by the Casey Foundation to help ensure that all students are proficient in reading by the end of third grade and help narrow the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Florida district using Teachscape walkthroughs

Column from a CH-UH teacher "I knew my class was the most challenging of my teaching career, and our success would be evident by growth, not a minimum score. "You've never let us down," my principal said. But I did. Only half of my students made the "proficient" score of 400 on the spring reading Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA). In math, only 69 percent made it. These scores, used in this month's state report card, represent the lowest passage rates I've ever had. That they occurred during the year I was chosen Ohio Teacher of the Year is a sobering irony. "

"School superintendents across Northeast Ohio are either crowing about their district's high grades or scrambling to explain the low ones to district residents following the annual release of state report cards Friday. "