Lots of Data, Set Free The most important aspect of the plan is
data. Useful data must be made freely available to all parents
and students so that parents can make sense of the various
educational offerings. Parents must be able to answer the
following questions: - What is the predicted performance of my
child in this education program based on the past performance of
children, like my child, in this program? - How much better (or
worse) is the predicted performance of my child in education
program A compared to educational programs B, C, ... , n. The
disaggregation of data made available has to go far beyond that
provided under NCLB. For example, a male student with two
Hispanic parents - one with a high school degree and the other
with a college STEM degree, a family income of $ x, from
neighborhood z, with various scores on prior tests taken should
be able to drill down through the data and find out similar
students like him and see how they fared in a particular course.
Such a system is predicated on acc