More data get gates' approval.Improving the collection and use of education data and creating state longitudinal data systems Longitudinal data system is a data system capable of tracking student information over multiple years in multiple schools. The term appears in Federal law to describe such a system. Federal funding is provided to aid the design and implementation of such systems. to improve student achievement are among the biggest pushes of the Council of Chief State School Officers The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a national nonprofit organization in the United States which represents public officials that head elementary and secondary education departments. and the U.S. Department of Education. At the organizations' November November: see month. Data Summit, the Data Quality Campaign, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. Foundation and managed by the National Center for Educational Accountability, the group kicked off a plan to provide tools for states in creating longitudinal data systems and providing a national forum to improve data quality and access. Ten national organizations have signed on as founding partners in the campaign, hoping to develop highquality systems that gather data on the same students year to year in every state over the next three years; to promote the valuable uses of such data and financial data to improve achievement; and to use common data standards and efficient data transfer. Policy makers must also plan for future improvements including the ability to link school performance with spending, connect education systems with employment and to transfer records across states, while also protecting student privacy. www.DataQualityCampaign.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. The Founding Partners has a list of brochures and studies to support the efforts: * Measure What Matters--Creating a Longitudinal Data System to Improve Student Achievement * Create a Longitudinal Data System: Using Data to Improve Student Achievement * State of the State Data Systems, which gives a snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. of every state's progress. |
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