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Are Teachers Prepared To Learn From Standardized Tests?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Data-Driven Instruction, Testing, Education Schools, Education News, Teacher Quality, Education, Common Core, Arne Duncan, Ncate, Common Assessment, Data, Teacher Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, Education Quality, Teachers, Assessments, Education News

These days, it's not enough for teachers to know how to manage a classroom, impart knowledge and deliver lesson plans. In the wake of test-heavy po...

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Kickboard For Teachers Encourages Data Collection In the Classroom

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Education Standards, Jennifer Medbery, Test, Education, Kickboard for Teachers, Academic, Data, Standardized Testing, Classroom Management, Teachers, Education News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee “Be data driven, not data drowning,” is the slogan for Kickboard for Teachers -- an educational software, designed to h...

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Insane Bar Code Portraits

Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Y2k, Andy Warhol, Photoshop, Consumerism, Video, Barcode Art, Scott Blake, Scott Blake Barcode Art, Data, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Scott Blake makes incredible interactive portraits out of bar codes, illustrating how black-and-white data can come to resemble a personal connection....

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Painting a Picture of Poverty in Utah: By the Numbers

Jodie Levin-Epstein | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Government, Poverty, Data, Utah, Financial Security, Economic Ladder, Intergenerational Poverty, Politics News
Jodie Levin-Epstein

Simply put, it's getting harder and harder for American families to move up the economic ladder and into a measure of financial security where they can afford quality health care, to send their kids to college, and can put away a little for retirement.

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Are We Putting the (Knowledge) Cart Before the (Emotional) Horse?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Education, Assessment, Cognitive Science, Brain, Data, Bullying, Memory and Cognition, Education Reform, School Bullying, Video, Education News
Sam Chaltain

In school reform, we dramatically overvalue the importance of academic learning, and assume that merely focusing on better curricula and clearer standards will carry the day. Yet the research suggests otherwise.

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Big Data Comes to the Communications Industry

Christian Olsen | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Crm, Roi, Big Data, Data Analysis, Data, Digital Communication, Business News
Christian Olsen

Companies don't need to ask questions to the outside world or infer possible responses through educated guessing based on past behaviors. All a company needs to do now is listen.

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Business Analytics: Leveraging Business Data and Insights with IBM

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Business Analytics, Video, Ibm, Ibm-Bao, Data, Information Technology, Smarter Ideas, Customer Experience, Technology News

IBM is helping global IT leaders use smarter business analytics to extract major insights from big data and meet growing customer expectations....

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Poverty Moves To The Suburbs (MAPS)

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Breakdown, Foreclosure Crisis, Poverty, Maps, US Poverty, Data, Great Recession, Suburban Poverty, Poverty Rate, Business News

Read more: Breakdown: Americans on the Edge...

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International Data Journalism Awards Recognize a Crucial Field

Alexander Howard | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: The Future of News, Media, Open Data, Data Journalism, Data, Real Time Reporting, Data Journalism Awards, Technology News
Alexander Howard

The growing importance of data journalism will be recognized in the first ever international Data Journalism Awards.

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The Real SOPA Opera Should Be ID Theft

Adam Levin | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Lobbyists, Grassroots, Identity Theft, Pipa, SOPA Bill, Facebook, Privacy, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Aol, Sopa Pipa, Data, Data Breaches, Youtube, Politics News
Adam Levin

While we contemplate the gargantuan battle of the content vs. technology worlds, we must not forget an equally serious, actually even more serious example of online piracy.

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In Presentations, Learn to Say Less

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Leadership, Presentation Skills, Presentations, Communication, Communication Skills, Data, Management, Business News
Ron Ashkenas

It's not easy to say less and convey more. But if you learn how to do it well, you'll have much more impact on your audience and on your organization. What are your suggestions for learning how to say less?

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Obama Poll Watch -- November, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Polls, Obama Polls, President Obama, Monthly Polls, Osama Bin Laden, November, Obamapollwatch, Supercommittee, Trendline, Occupy Wall Street, Iraq, Poll, Obama, Disapproval, Charts, Approval Ratings, Polling, Data, Opinion Polls, Obama Approval, Obama Poll Watch, Graph, Trend, Daily Polls, Chart, Carter, Hostage Crisis, Undecided, Approval Rating, 2011, Barack Obama, Job Approval, Realclearpolitics, Obama Poll Numbers, Opinion Poll, Chris Weigant, Poll of Polls, Jimmy Carter, Graphs, Pollster, Politics News
Chris Weigant

This month Obama poll watchers got some good news, and some bad news. This was capped off by the Washington punditocracy making a stupid comparison between polling for Obama and Carter.

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Open Data for Real People

Patti Prairie | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Government, Open-Data-Environment, Sustainability, Open Data, Data, Open Date Internet, Open Data Apps, Open Data Online, Open Date Government, Technology News
Patti Prairie

Why, when the app industry is booming with new demand and innovation, are open data providers seeing much lower uptake than anticipated?

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How To Create A Data-Driven Startup

Roger Ehrenberg | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Algorithm, Data-Driven Startup, Startup Data, Startup, Data, Innovation, Startup Conference, Technology, Technology Conference, Small Business America, Small Business News
Roger Ehrenberg

Building a successful - and sustainable - data-driven enterprise is so much more than simply having better algorithms or a more performant box: It takes great people with data DNA and a model that creates competitive moats around the business.

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The Competitive Privacy Marketplace: Regulators Competing on Privacy, Not the Companies

Christina Gagnier | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Regulation, International Law, Law, Data-Management, International-Telecommunications-Union, Data, Privacy, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

As most countries are just beginning to tackle data regulation online, an uncertain future remains for users on the World Wide Web.

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Why Parents Help Tweens Violate Facebook's 13+ Rule

danah boyd | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Coppa, Parenting, Facebook, Data, Technology Law, Children Online, Tweens, Kids on Facebook, Policy, Privacy, Parents News
danah boyd

Parents often want their children to learn how to be responsible digital citizens. Allowing them access is often the first step.

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Data Through the Ages

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Think, Ibm, Data, NY Around Town, Traffic Congestion, Think Exhibit, Computers, Technology News
Steve Rosenbaum

At first blush, DATA seems like a recent idea. But after spending time at the THINK exhibit, you begin to understand that data isn't something that is created by computers. Rather, it's information made more useful by computers.

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Today's Creepy Is Tomorrow's Necessity: Policy Invades Web 2.0 Summit

Christina Gagnier | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Data, Facebook Privacy, Regulation, Web 2.0 Summit, Privacy, Sean Parker, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

The beginning of today's Web 2.0 Summit, focusing on big data and, appropriately themed, "The Data Frame," was kicked off in a conversation with Spoti...

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New Report Highlights South's Civil War Hangover

Andy Brack | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: American South, Leadership, Statistics, Briefing Book, Andy Brack, Data, Civil War, Center for a Better South, Politics News
Andy Brack

Although today's South is a diverse economic engine, it still has educational, environmental, poverty, health and other challenges brought on, in large part, by a long period of neglect following the Civil War.

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The (Avoidable) Downside of Big Data

Steve Hamm | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Ibm, Smarter Ideas, Data, Ibm-Bao, Cmo Study, Video, Technology News
Steve Hamm

Even though there are drawbacks, the heart of new technologies will help cities work better.

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To Charter or Not to Charter?

Shaun Johnson | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Data, Common Core, Teacher Education, Charter School, Education News
Shaun Johnson

Participation in the charter school movement is possible for someone like me, especially in urban areas where chartered schools are seen as viable alternatives to traditional public education.

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Find Out How To Use Our Education Data For Your Reporting

ProPublica | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Public Schools, School Districts, Opportunity Gap, Department of Education, Data, Advanced Placement, Education News
ProPublica

By Sharona Coutts, and Al Shaw, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Education recently released the largest and most comprehensive snapshot of the edu...

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'One Report' As Part of the Debt Package Could Cut Government Costs and Boost the Economy

W. David Stephenson | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Xbrl, Structured-Data, Issa, Data, Tagging, Debt Ceiling, One Report, Politics News
W. David Stephenson

No matter what savings result from the current deficit reduction negotiations, there's little hope for long-term, structural savings if we continue to...

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It's Not Cheating. It's Sabotage.

Timothy D. Slekar | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Arnie Duncan, High-Stakes Testing, Cheating, Goodman, Data, Sabotage, Declaration of Professional Conscience for Teachers, Education News
Timothy D. Slekar

In a warped sense, educators in places where testing "improprieties" took place should be thanked. They revealed the one thing education reformers fear most -- the system being used to dismantle public schools has an Achilles' heel.

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"In God We Trust; All Other, Bring Data!"

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: m3, Unemployment, Numbers, Statistics, Oil Peak, Data, Saudi Arabia, Troop Levels, Matt Simmons, Money Supply, Politics News
Craig K. Comstock

When crucial information is misleading or absent, what is the meaning of democracy? Key indicators are now being hidden or massaged, for example, in ...

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