Our mission is to help learning communities expand their capacity to offer all students an equal chance to learn.
Organizations learn to work collaboratively using data to identify specific learning problems and have consistently demonstrated the ability to continuously implement solutions that improve student learning and increase student achievement.
Increased student achievement is the result of developing a learning community empowered to use data and emerge as a sustaining culture of collaborative inquiry.
Our goal is to provide the experience, guidance, people and processes that will enable any learning community to become a successful self-directed and self-sustaining data using culture with the ability to be both data and information rich.
August 2009 Alliance for Excellent Education Policy Brief
Using Data highlighted as a program that can help educators deliver on the promise of data to improve teaching and learning. Page 7
"This brief addresses why using data represents a significant shift for most teachers in how they perform their jobs, explains the importance of using multiple types of data to affect learning, details the infrastructure necessary to encourage teachers' use of data, and provides federal policy recommendations." Page 1
"Our nation cannot afford to be information poor any longer. With supportive district, state, and federal policy, we need a delivery on the promise of data to improve teaching and learning." Page 10
