SchoolMatters interactive tools will help teachers and administrators make sound decisions about instruction while providing parents with the data they need to ask the right questions about achievement and accountability. SchoolMatters will educate, empower, and engage education stakeholders.
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Policymakers, educators, and individual parents are working hard to improve our schools, and they deserve respect and gratitude for taking on such a difficult challenge. However, education leaders are often forced to make critical decisions based on incomplete information, simply because there hasn't been a national, easily searchable clearinghouse for education information and analysis-until now.

SchoolMatters gives policymakers, educators, and parents the tools they need to make better-informed decisions that improve student performance.  SchoolMatters puts a world of educational data at the fingertips of educators and parents. The site's interactive tools will help teachers and administrators make sound decisions about instruction while providing parents with the data they need to ask the right questions about achievement and accountability. SchoolMatters will educate, empower, and engage education stakeholders.  

Using SchoolMatters, educators can easily identify schools that are similar in nature, yet perform at higher levels, and begin benchmarking their progress, which ultimately leads to better schools and improved student performance.

The information and analysis will educate Americans about how schools and school districts are performing and help them understand the complex relationships between achievement and investment.

SchoolMatters will empower educators and policymakers, giving them easy access to the information they need to craft strong education policies.

Finally, SchoolMatters will engage the public in a widespread movement to improve our nation's school systems. For the first time, parents and the general public will have instant access to a wide range of data on local schools and schools districts, enabling them to make informed decisions, ranging from policies they advocate to the schools their children attend.

SchoolMatters is provided by the Education Data Partnership, which was created to help transform the way education information is used by educators, policymakers, superintendents, and parents. The Education Data Partnership is a collaborative effort of the Council of Chief State School Officers, Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Services, Achieve, Inc., and the CELT Corporation and is generously funded by The Broad Foundation and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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