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e-Reports for Parents
August, 2003 Technology should make it as easy for parents to track their children's progress in school as it is to track stock portfolios, yet many schools don't take advantage of the information available to them, John Bailey, director of educational technology for the U.S. Department of Education, told a Business School education conference. "Every night in America, there's this common pattern around the dinner table: How was school today? Fine. What activities did you do? Not much. Do you have any projects due next week? No." The scenario would change, Bailey said, if mom and dad could track their child's academic progress online every day "as easily as they would monitor a stock portfolio." For companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon.com, data ranks second only to employees as a resource, he said, but many school administrators don't know how to analyze the test scores and other raw data they collect. "It's one thing to have data, and another to know what to do with it." |
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