Data Quality Campaign

I’ve been learning a lot about state and school district-level data systems for work recently, and wanted to post a link to a fascinating survey of state data systems that was conducted by the Data Quality Campaign in 2007.  The DQC is a sorely needed effort in the world of educational data systems – they are working to ensure that all states have data systems in place with 10 essential elements (e.g. unique student and teacher identifiers, which can be linked, etc.).   Check out their data survey (fascinating stuff, and interesting to see how fractured the market of providers is, and which of the 10 essential elements are really lacking in the field!):  www.dataqualitycampaign.org