DATA QUALITY AND THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT

Friday, February 23, 2007, 1pm EST

Special Guests: Aimee Guidera & Nancy Smith, Data Quality Campaign; Bethann Canada, Virginia Department of Education

The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) is a non-profit organization that aims to improve the collection and use of data in education. The DQC was created in 2005 with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to coordinate the work of separate but similar campaigns regarding educational data systems to come together to ensure coordinated and unduplicated efforts towards reaching their common goals. The mission is to provide support for and advocacy on behalf of organizations that create, collect, and use education data in an effort to improve student achievement.

This edition of EPILive will look at the NCLB has pushed the data envelope and what we may look for in the upcoming reauthorization of the Act with respect to data issues at the federal, state, and local levels.

To view the powerpoint presentation of this event, click here.

To download the entire EPIlive program (with audio), click here. (approx. 67MB)