This document offers best practice suggestions on collecting and using student attendance data to improve performance. It includes a standard set of codes to make attendance data comparable across districts and states. The product also presents real-life examples of how attendance information has been used by school districts. Managing an Identity Crisis: Forum Guide to Implementing New Federal Race and Ethnicity Categories (2008) This best-practice guide is developed to assist state and local education agencies in their implementation of the new federal race and ethnicity categories—thereby reducing redundant efforts within and across states, improving data comparability, and minimizing reporting burden. It serves as a toolkit from which users may select and adopt strategies that will help them quickly begin the process of implementation in their agencies. Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies (2007) This curriculum supports efforts to improve the quality of education data by serving as training materials for K12 school and district staff. Improving Education Data Online Course The Improving Education Data Online Course is based on topics addressed in the Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies. The course is offered in in two parts:
This document offers best practice suggestions on collecting and using student attendance data to improve performance. It includes a standard set of codes to make attendance data comparable across districts and states. The product also presents real-life examples of how attendance information has been used by school districts. Managing an Identity Crisis: Forum Guide to Implementing New Federal Race and Ethnicity Categories (2008) This best-practice guide is developed to assist state and local education agencies in their implementation of the new federal race and ethnicity categories—thereby reducing redundant efforts within and across states, improving data comparability, and minimizing reporting burden. It serves as a toolkit from which users may select and adopt strategies that will help them quickly begin the process of implementation in their agencies. Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies (2007) This curriculum supports efforts to improve the quality of education data by serving as training materials for K12 school and district staff. Improving Education Data Online Course The Improving Education Data Online Course is based on topics addressed in the Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies. The course is offered in in two parts:
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