Education Week: Data Tools Aim to Predict Student Performance

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Education Week: Data Tools Aim to Predict Student Performance:


Education leaders in North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district are scrutinizing the habits and grades of elementary school students to determine who may fall off track and fail to graduate from high school a decade or more from now.

They don't need a crystal ball to make predictions. Officials in the 141,000-student district are relying on a "risk-factor scorecard" to help them spot children who are in jeopardy of becoming dropouts and then deploy resources to help them change course.

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