• Coalition of Essential Schools For over twenty years, CES has been a national leader in public education transformation. Guided by the Common Principles, CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.

• Evaluating for Success: An Evaluation Guide for Districts and Schools  A resource for helping districts and schools to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives and changes.

• Data-Driven Decision Making folio  From McREL

• The Department of Education Administration College of Education Data Use Website This website provides resources on data-driven decision-making, including reviews of software for analyzing student data.

• Embracing the Information Age 

• McREL Policy Brief: Standards-Based Accountability Systems Policy brief aimed at providing guidance for developing effective accountability systems.

• ECS Issue Paper: Informing Practices and Improving Results with Data-Driven Decisions The various stages of working with data to inform education decision making and improve results are explored in this ECS paper.

• Improving School Board Decision-Making: The Data Connection Data Connection Web site from the National School Boards Foundation.

• Data-driven Improvement Effort Leads to Results in Oak Park Presented by the National Staff Development Council

• Books

• Bureau of Assessment and Accountability

• Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC) Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC)

• Assessment School change toolkit resources from McREL

• Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI)

• The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2014 After analyzing key demographic, economic, cultural, global, political, and technological trends in the US, McREL has written 16 scenarios that describe how these trends may converge to create different futures for schooling in America.