Teachers College Press to publish Data-Driven School Improvement, developed in association with CCT

New book delves into current thinking, framework for using data to support learning.
Mar 1 2008

Book Info from TCPress

Teachers College Press will publish in March a new book on using data to support decision-making that grows out of CCT's work on using data to support teaching and learning.

In the fall of 2005, CCT held a conference on "Improving Achievement Through Linking Data and Learning" at the Johnson Foundation's Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference brought together leading researchers, policymakers, and educators to discuss how to make meaningful use of data to improve student learning and make informed decisions—a critical issue for those attempting to improve academic achievement. The new book grows out of this conference, specifically the ideas, examples and papers presented over the three-day meeting.

Edited by Ellen B. Mandinach and Margaret Honey, the book includes chapters by EDC's Cornelia Brunner, Naomi Hupert, and Daniel Light.

Some of the book's features include:

• A framework, based on a three-year project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, describing how data are transformed into usable knowledge.


• Informative case studies illustrating how schools are using data to inform best practice.


• Suggestions for how digital resources can be used to improve teaching in the classroom.


• A thought-provoking treatise on educational reform from the state perspective.

Data-Driven School Improvement is part of the Teacher College Press Technology, Education—Connections (TEC) Series. The book was developed in association with EDC's Center for Children and Technology.

Book Info
$51.95 ISBN 0807748560 (320 pp.) Paper