Data-Driven Districts: Building the Culture and Capacity To Improve Student Achievement

• Organizations: Data Quality Campaign
• Date: 04/2009
• Description: Recently the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) collaborated with APQC, a nonprofit, member-based organization working to help educators improve district processes, to conduct a benchmarking study, Best Practices in Data-Driven Decisionmaking. The 69 participating districts, including eight best-practice districts from across the nation, collaborated for six months to identify and understand what distinguishes characteristics of districts that are excelling at using data for making key operational and instructional decisions. This brief is an overview of the key findings from the study.

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