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The “Tricky Dance” Between Researchers and Educators

The “Tricky Dance” Between Researchers and Educators

February 5, 2018

Education Week’s Sarah D. Sparks reports that, while “on paper” ESSA promotes partnerships between educators and researchers to more efficaciously use data and improve teaching, in reality, “researcher access to data has become an even more complex dance, with an unprecedented flow of education data that is balanced out by heightened concerns about privacy and the potential fallout of negative results.”