All Schools Need a Data Scientist
Since I started in education 18 years ago, I've seen wave after wave of reform measures. At that time, No Child Left Behind was gasping for air. Common Core shot to the fore but crashed and burned like an early Spacex rocket. CC was rebranded and repackaged as Race to the Top almost immediately. Every new reform measure to hit the streets was marketed as "research-based" measures as if that moniker meant it was sure to work. Then, a few years ago we stopped hearing the phrase "research-based" when it was replaced with the words "evidence-based." It was like someone high up on the education policy setting food chain suddenly realized that research on reform measures didn't necessarily imply those reform measures worked. But this epiphany didn't make things any better. So here we are, now in the third decade of the 21st century, with education in America still floundering. According to Michael Seelig in the Stanford Social Innovation Review , 20...