| eScholar, the nation's leading provider of student identification systems, is rolling out Version 2.0 of its eScholar Uniq-ID for Staff application.
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| eScholar LLC, the leader in K-12 education data management software, has been selected by the Department of Defense Education Activity to assign unique student identifers for their students located on military bases around the world.
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| The newest release includes a new data domain and over 120 new data elements while delivering improved performance and enhanced data quality and validation features.
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Finding Your Way in a Data Driven World |
| Schools now have the tools to analyze data in a more structured, timely, and organized fashion. With one computer keystroke, officials in North Carolina’s Guilford County school district can see which students are at risk of dropping out years before it might happen. Read more |
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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) . Read more |
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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. Read more |
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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. Read more |
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| 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. Read more |
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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. Read more |
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| Wyoming to create statewide data system |
| "Wyoming understands that establishing a student identifier and locator system is an essential building block for using data to help children get a better education," said Shawn Bay, chief executive officer of eScholar, which provides student identification and data warehousing solutions for K-12 education. Read More |
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| 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. Read More |
