DatabasED

Andrew Rice, CEO of the nonprofit organization Education Analytics, joins us to discuss the roles that research and technology each have to play--separately and together--in the education data/analytics environment. Andrew is trained as an economist and has unique perspectives on the ways in which different sectors can complement each other to meet the needs of K12 education. We also discuss the c...

In this episode, the INsite team talks with K12 analytics engineer Marcos Alcozer about his experiences and opinions with the idea of "real time" data and analytics in educational settings. We discuss the importance of understanding users' needs, get into operational databases versus denormalized data warehouses, consider the tradeoffs around performance and cost, and Marcos gets vulnerable about...

“Data cannot speak for itself.” In our first episode, we speak with Dr. Alex Bowers, Professor of Education Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, about the topics of data analysis, predictive analytics, and working with educators to leverage data for student and community growth. We discuss his four A’s of early warning systems, which should be Accurate, Accessible, Actionable, and...