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From the Back Room to the Board Room to the School Room: The Business Officer in the World of NCLB.
Doyle, Denis P. – School Business Affairs, 2003
Describes role of school business officials in complying with No Child Left Behind Act's mandated use of school and student data. Includes data mining for educators and information technology solutions. (PKP)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Database Management Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Privacy, Self-Regulation, and the Fight for Control of Personal Information.
Johnston, Scott D. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Examines the role of self-regulation in the establishment of an informational privacy policy. Discusses information technologies and changes in commerce; personal information in databases; demands for accountability; institutional and enforcement models; legislation; government failures; self-regulation and the individual; and potential problems…
Descriptors: Accountability, Databases, Government Role, Information Policy
The National Student Clearinghouse: The Largest Current Student Tracking Database
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Schoenecker, Craig; Reeves, Richard – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
This chapter describes the National Student Clearinghouse and discusses opportunities and challenges for tracking community college students. It also presents a system perspective on using clearinghouse data to promote more comprehensive student and graduate tracking. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Transfer Rates (College), Clearinghouses, Nonprofit Organizations, Community Colleges
Using State Student Unit Record Data to Increase Community College Student Success
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Ewell, Peter; Jenkins, Davis – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
This chapter examines lessons learned by states that are using student unit record (SUR) data to improve outcomes for community college students and recommends steps states can take to strengthen their use of SUR databases to benefit students and communities. (Contains 1 exhibit.)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Databases, Student Records, Data
Improving Decisions with Data
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Johnson, Doug – School Administrator, 2004
Schools gather, store and use an increasingly large amount of data. Keeping track of everything from bus routes to building access codes to test scores to sports equipment is done with the help of electronic database programs. Large databases designed for budgeting and student record keeping have long been an integral part of the educational…
Descriptors: Databases, Student Records, Information Systems, Accountability
Linking Data and Learning: The Grow Network Study
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Brunner, Cornelia; Fasca, Chad; Heinze, Juliette; Honey, Margaret; Light, Daniel; Mardinach, Ellen; Wexler, Dara – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2005
During the last decade, standards, assessments, and accountability have emerged as three prongs of a national education reform movement that has asked district and school administrators to think very differently about educational decision making and the use of data. However, research about data-driven decision making is limited, especially…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Decision Making, Urban Schools, Public Schools
Department of Education: Multiple, Nonintegrated Systems Hamper Management of Student Financial Aid Programs. Testimony before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U. S. Senate. Statement of Cornelia M. Blanchette, Associate Director Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division.
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Blanchette, Cornelia M. – 1997
This statement of Cornelia M. Blanchette to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Reources discusses Department of Education information management systems that support the financial aid programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. These programs help the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compliance (Legal), Data Collection, Databases