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‘Data Room’ Keeps Teachers, Students Focused on Goals

(Ericka Mellon/Houston Chronicle) Welcome to the war room at Sharps­town High School. Labeled magnets cling to walls from floor to ceiling, loaded with data about students – their past test scores, their likelihood of passing upcoming state exams, their tutoring plan. Photographs of each teacher hang nearby. Next to them are the average test scores …

‘Data Room’ Keeps Teachers, Students Focused on Goals”