New Education Dashboard: Less Rigorous, Less Meaningful

Last month, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released an online 'Eduction Dashboard" that is supposed to show how American schools and students are performing and to encourage public debate and discussion. The dashboard offers Web pages full of numbers, charts, and arrows meant to p...

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Published in:Education week 2011-02, Vol.30 (20), p.28
Main Authors: Wurman, Ze'ev, Evers, Williamson M
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Last month, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released an online 'Eduction Dashboard" that is supposed to show how American schools and students are performing and to encourage public debate and discussion. The dashboard offers Web pages full of numbers, charts, and arrows meant to provide us with a meaningful picture at a glance of where we are and where we are heading.
ISSN:0277-4232
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