The DC Consortium on Research and Evaluation for DC Public Schools

EAGER项目探讨了基于联盟的研究和评估计划的可行性，以支持DC公立学校正在进行的改革，并确保STEM教育政策和实践在联盟的新兴设计中具有高度优先地位。该项目将以核管制委员会最近的几份报告为基础，支持（1）改善收集和分析科学、技术、工程和数学领域具体成绩单数据的基础设施，使其成为DCPS数据和指标系统的一个组成部分;（2）探讨一个联合体在确定评价和研究的优先主题方面的有效性;以及（3）确保新的联盟产生对全国正在进行的其他基于联盟的努力有用的新知识。以大学为基础的联盟作为改善华盛顿公立学校的战略的概念既大胆又创新，值得探索、发展和监测。华盛顿特区公立学校的改革也存在重大风险因素，因为自1804年以来，已经尝试了17种不同的管理结构。然而，一个提供准确证据和数据的联合体的概念是至关重要的，因为特区试图保持由市长控制而发起的改革的势头。

This EAGER project explores the feasibility of a consortium-based program of research and evaluation to support ongoing reforms in the DC public schools and to ensure a high priority for STEM education policy and practice in the emerging design of the consortium. Building on several recent NRC reports, the project will support (1) the improvement of the infrastructure for collection and analysis of STEM-specific transcript data so that it becomes an integral part of the data and indicator system for DCPS; (2) an exploration of the effectiveness of a consortium in determining priority topics for evaluation and research; and (3) ensuring that the new consortium produces new knowledge useful to other consortium-based efforts underway across the nation. The notion of a university-based consortium as a strategy for improving DC public schools is both bold and innovative and warrants exploration, development and monitoring. There are also significant risk factors reform in the DC public schools takes place in a highly charged political environment where 17 different management structures have been tried since 1804. However, the notion of a consortium that provides accurate evidence and data is a vital one, as the District attempts to sustain the momentum of reform that was initiated by moving to Mayoral control.