Last week, Education Week, Teacher Magazine’s sister publication, released Technology Counts 2006, its ninth annual survey of education technology. This year’s report, titled “The Information Edge,” ...

Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, economists at Harvard, and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia co-wrote the recent study "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in ...

As states’ information-collection systems grow more sophisticated, officials are grappling with where to draw the line on how “value added” data on teachers can be used. Tennessee law permits the use ...

Our school curriculum requires teaching students from 2nd grade on up how to use databases, but we're a bit uncertain what is a good program to use to teach them. Obviously Access is out of the ...

Terri L. Renner had long wondered what made some of her students succeed more than others. Maybe, thought Renner, a senior lecturer in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana ...

Data science professors can infuse ethics into their curricula with "An Introduction to Data Ethics," a teaching resource designed by SCU Philosophy Professor Shannon Vallor. The author of Technology ...

Devanshi Patel (MSIT '24) shares how MSIT prepared her to teach lessons in data science and statistics to high school students over the summer. The email arrived in Devanshi Patel's inbox, and ...

The Houston Chronicle analyzed salary records from more than 365,000 full-time teachers across the state of Texas to learn more about how educators in different school districts and with different ...