Data mining
Illinois Issues
June 1, 2009
Education Practice Group attorney Jonathan Furr was quoted in the Illinois Issues article titled, "Data mining," published in June 2009.
The article reveals that the State of Illinois will launch a data program to track the progress of students from preschool through college and, ultimately, to a career. The program is meant to identify the quality and gaps in teaching methods, and the preparation of students for life after high school. Mr. Furr, who drafted the legislation for this system, SB 1828, assures that it will not be used to evaluate individual students, but rather classes as a whole. He stated, "You have to have more than just a handful of students to make any kind of valid determination of what an effective program is."
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