Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 55 Issue 4

Data use for equity: implications for teaching, leadership, and policy

Amanda Datnow, Jennifer C. Greene, Nora Gannon-Slater

Advancing equity in accountability and organizational cultures of data use

Nora Gannon-Slater, Priya G. La Londe, Hope L. Crenshaw, Margaret E. Evans, Jennifer C. Greene, Thomas A. Schwandt

Data use cultures in schools determine data use practices. Such cultures can be muted by powerful macro accountability and organizational learning cultures. Further, strong…

Light touch, heavy hand: principals and data-use PLCs

Alice Huguet, Caitlin C. Farrell, Julie A. Marsh

The use of data for instructional improvement is prevalent in today’s educational landscape, yet policies calling for data use may result in significant variation at the school…

The Balancing Act: Student classroom placement routines and the uses of data in elementary schools

Vicki Park, Elise St John, Amanda Datnow, Bailey Choi

The purpose of this paper is to examine how data are used in classroom placement routines. The authors explore educators’ assumptions about the purposes of the classroom placement…

Teachers interpreting data for instructional decisions: where does equity come in?

Brette Garner, Jennifer Kahn Thorne, Ilana Seidel Horn

Though test-based accountability policies seek to redress educational inequities, their underlying theories of action treat inequality as a technical problem rather than a…

How data use for accountability undermines equitable science education

Melissa Braaten, Chris Bradford, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Sadie Fox Barocas

When school leaders advance strategic plans focused on improving educational equity through data-driven decision making, how do policies-as-practiced unfold in the daily work of…