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How Data Drives Strategies for Improved Student Outcomes

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Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. The balance between quantitative and qualitative data is essential.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. Is it fair to judge a student from a low-achieving school against a privately-tutored student? On the other hand, the first candidate did not need a job so could spend time on schoolwork.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

ED Surge

Carr argues that changing the way dyslexia is diagnosed — Carr critiques the “discrepancy model,” which compares IQ to reading scores — could help lift reading achievement for many students. The newspaper’s data analysis shows that this form of education is growing quickly , and among different groups of families than in years past.

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

Futurum

The next step involves implementing schemes and programmes that can support people living in poverty and help them to achieve financial security. What are your proudest career achievements so far? Data analysis skills are often in high demand, so working on these is a good idea. Do you have a question for Nathan?

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How to Use Data Driven Instruction in the Classroom

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Click Here Sponsor This week's guest Victoria Setaro is currently an instructional lead focused on data analytics and professional development for Ulster BOCES in New York State. She has been a school and district leader in public education for over 20 years. Either the kids were starting to lift their level of achievement or not.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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This type of fire is deliberately applied to a pre-determined area at the time, intensity and rate of spread required to achieve the desired management objectives, and occurs under a strict set of environmental conditions Fire suppression techniques — the various strategies for stopping a fire once it has started. “In

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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

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This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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