Media Coverage

Education Data Companies Chosen

The Wall Street Journal - August 13, 2012 — New York state education officials selected four companies to build a broad education database that will host students' test scores, curriculum materials and education apps, paid for by up to $50 million in federal Race to the Top funds.     More

 

Driving Decisions with Data

SchoolCIO - April, 2012 — eScholar customer, Cumberland County Schools in North Carolina is featured in the April issue of SchoolCIO.    More

 

Voice from the Industry

EdNet News Alert - March 30, 2012 — eScholar Founder and CEO, Shawn T. Bay, contributes an article to EdNet's newsletter on Personalized Education.    More

 

Assign, Track and Identify Individual Students Across State Lines

SchoolCIO - March 28, 2012 — eScholar LLC today announced an industry first with eScholar Interstate™ ID eXchange, an application that enables staff to find and correctly identify students that travel between participating states, provides unduplicated identification and maintains aliases of participating states.     More

 

What's New

Tech&Learning - February 29, 2012 — eScholar myTrack™ facilitates collaborative goal planning.    More

 

A Crystal Ball for Student Achievement

District Administration - February 22, 2012 — Santa Ana Unified School Disrict in California used eScholar's Complete Data Warehouse software to integrate all student information system and assessment system data.  Last year, Alexandra Ito, director of education technology of the Santa Ana school district, which has roughly 56,000 students, applied for and received a federal Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant to integrate the data. More

Products Worth Checking Out

District Administration - February 22, 2012 — This new student-centered solution allows for collaborative goal planning.   More

Interview:  Shawn Bay Knows Education Data

EdTech Digest - January 31, 2012 — After his own experience working with large quantities of data in the private sector, Shawn Bay recognized the amount of data within education and an opportunity to apply analytics to improve education.  Here, Shawn discusses education, technology, and using data to empower individuals to succeed in life.  More

 

eScholar Launches Student Goal Planning Application

T.H.E. Journal - January 20, 2012 — A company that specializes in data management products for K-12 and higher education environments has come out with an application for managing student goals.  More

 

Education Growth Partners Completes Investment in eScholar LLC

Marketwire - January 19, 2012 — Education Growth Partners, a leading growth private equity firm focused exclusively on the education industry, announced today a significant investment in eScholar LLC, a leader in the collection, integration and application of data to personalize education and improve educational outcomes.   More

 

eScholar Interview with Education Market Research

The Complete K-12 Newsletter - October 2011 — Founder and CEO Shawn T. Bay is featured in this month's issue in an interview with Bob Resnick, Founder of Education Market Research. More

 

Back-office Business:  Which Districts Bought What?

Tech & Learning - August 30, 2011 — A California district adopts student data system.  Santa Ana Unified School District needed technology that could provide data it could use to predict outcomes and support student success in both high school graduation and college and career readiness. More

 

Complete Data Warehouse 13 Adds Modules, Enhanced Relationship Tracking

T.H.E. Journal - July 21, 2011 — eScholar has released a new version of the Complete Data Warehouse, its information management and analysis tool, with enhanced tracking of the relationships between assessments, academic standards, and courses. More

 

SAUSD Selects eScholar Complete Data Warehouse to Improve Student Data Management, Reporting and Academic Achievement

Santa Ana, CA — June 27, 2011 - Santa Ana Unified School District has selected eScholar Complete Data Warehouse for PK-12 as the foundation for the school district's "early alert system."  SAUSD will initially deploy the longitudinal-based warehouse, code name "Project Arrow," to each of its high schools in the fall of 2011.  Staff training begins this summer. More

School of Thought in Brockton, Massachusetts

Brockton, Mass. — February 3, 2001 - In 1998, when Massachusetts first implemented new standardized testing that was required for graduation, administrators at Brockton High School learned that more than 75 percent of their 4,000 students would fail to graduate. More

Port Chester's John F. Kennedy School to Celebrate Blue Ribbon Award - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is Keynote Speaker

Port Chester, New York — November 8, 2010 - The John F. Kennedy Magnet School - the only public school in Westchester to be named a 2010 National Blue Ribbon School - will salute its faculty, students and parents at a celebration on November 17 at Port Chester's Capitol Theater. More

EdUnifySM SOA Governance Framework Initiative Now Supported by Twenty-Five Education Community Stakeholders

Washington, D.C. — September 29, 2010 - The Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) today announced an impressive list of supporters from leading educational institutions, organizations, associations, state and corporations for the EdUnify SOA Governance Framework Initiative. More

 

4,100 Students Prove "Small is Better" Rule Wrong

BROCKTON, Mass. — September 27, 2010 - A decade ago, Brockton High School was a case study in failure. Teachers and administrators often voiced the unofficial school motto in hallway chitchat: students have a right to fail if they want. And many of them did — only a quarter of the students passed statewide exams. One in three dropped out. More

Software Aims to Simplify EDEN Reporting

T.H.E. Journal - April 15, 2009 - In an era when schools are scrambling for public funds wherever they can find them, and when the 2009 ARRA stimulus package is allowing the United States Department of Education to provide funds like never before, the critical thread tying them together is data reporting. More

Pennsylvania Earns National Recognition for Efforts to Track Student Progress

Pennsylvania Department of Education - November 20, 2008 - A data collection system that will aid the educational progress of Pennsylvania's students has earned national recognition, Governor Edward G. Rendell and Education Secretary Gerald L. Zahorchak announced today. More

Data Quality Campaign Recognizes Leaders Building and Using Longitudinal Data Systems

Four state and district leaders were honored by the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) during the Council of Chief State School Officers' (CCSSO) Annual Policy Forum. The DQC, a national partnership to improve the quality, accessibility and use of data in education, recognized the award winners for their leadership and innovation in championing the vital need for quality education data. More

 

Deloitte Awarded Contract from Pennsylvania Department of Education

Deloitte Consulting LLP today announced that it has been awarded a contract from the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to provide services to support the implementation of the Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS). More

Kentucky Department of Education Data System Contract Award

Claraview Inc., of Reston, Virginia will provide software and professional services for the Kentucky Instructional Data System (KIDS) statewide longitudinal data system, the Kentucky Department of Education announced today. More

Data Warehousing: Too Much Information

The surge in the collection and use of data has created a new problem for K-12 administrators—where to put it all, while ensuring it stays safe and accessible. Data warehouses have the answer. More

States Struggle to Computerize School Records

Nearly all states are building high-tech student data systems to collect, categorize and crunch the endless gigabytes of attendance logs, test scores and other information collected in public schools. More

Risk & Reward: Both businesses and school districts face risks as they navigate an emerging and highly competitive market for data tools.

With the federal No Child Left Behind Act requiring school districts to show how their students are—or are not—improving, the past few years have seen the commercial marketplace for K-12 data-management systems crack wide open. More

Tracing the BI Family Tree

Shawn Bay remembers the first time he heard the term "business intelligence." As a market analyst at Procter & Gamble in the `80s, Bay had been part of a network that pioneered data warehousing and decision support. More