Today the Data Quality Campaign released its latest Data for Action report, showing that states are making progress towards building and using
effective education data systems.
We are happy to see that 17 states now share teacher
performance data with in-state teacher preparation programs. We’ve found that just six of these states
(Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee) also make these data available to the public (see our Connecting the Dots report for the
details). We hope other states follow
the lead of these six, since seeing the link between teacher prep programs and
graduates’ success in the classroom is as valuable for prospective teachers and hiring school districts as
it is to teacher prep programs.
This is just one of the interesting findings in the DQC
report. Take a look at the full report
to see which states are ahead of the curve in tracking and using student and
teacher data.
