Your child's data in a national database

Anyone seen the cutting edge analysis from Superintendent Jerry Weast of your child's testing data? The robust metrics? Of course not. We are just the public and we pay for all this "data" and "robust metrics" based on the tests our children take. But we don't get to actually see it.

Here's one more national press release touting the "data-driven" MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast, and using MCPS to endorse one more product. 

Forbes.com

Press Release

National Student Clearinghouse(R) Partners with American Association of School Administrators...

08.09.10, 10:37 AM EDT 
 

..."One example is Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, where Dr. Jerry Weast, the district superintendent, has developed a data-driven approach to measuring K-12 performance anchored by Clearinghouse data," continued Torres. "The district combined its own information with StudentTracker data to determine how likely their Advanced Placement (AP) students were to enroll in, persist in, and complete college. MCPS is just one of the many school systems that have leveraged Clearinghouse data to develop cutting-edge analyses of their curriculum as well as robust K-12 performance metrics."...