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Made possible through a collaboration between the
Rhode Island Department of Education
and URI's National Center on Public
Education, Information Works! offers a variety of school
indicators to help
the public and educators understand more completely the schools and
the widely varying contexts within which schools, teachers and
students operate. The ultimate goal of Information Works! -- and
indeed Article 31 which created it -- is to assist each school in its
efforts to improve student achievement by providing measures that
focus on getting all students to the level of proficient as well as
demonstrating less obvious progress toward these desired ends.
Now in its fifth year, Information
Works! is the principal publication of Rhode Island’s school
accountability initiative, though many collateral documents are
available through this Web site. The schools each have three page
reports of graphically
represented statistical information on student achievement, financial
data, student challenges, survey information from parents, teachers,
students and administrators and much more. Each district has four
pages showing its relevant information, and both the State
section and the Statewide Analysis give different views of the information
for the state as a whole. The unit of accountability in Rhode Island
is the school, so these profiles never describe how any individuals
are doing -- teachers, administrators or children.
Rhode Island’s school improvement and accountability strategy is to
collect a great variety of information from survey data to hands-on,
week-long team visits to the schools, analyze the information and give
it back to the schools and public to help them improve their schools
on an on-going basis. This Web site has collected all the comparable
information – school-to-school, school-to-district,
district-to-district – relevant and available this year.
If you would like to order a hardcopy of Information Works! 2002,
please send a check or money order for $30.00, which covers shipping
and handling, to:
National Center for Public Education and Social Policy
University of Rhode Island
Shepard Building, Rm. 300
80 Washington Street
Providence, RI 02903
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