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Each week we receive the Times Educational Supplement from England and Education Week from the US. Between us, we also subscribe to several Canadian newspapers and a number of educational journals and popular magazines from different countries. A quick glance at any of these publications makes it very clear that there is no escaping the presence of data in education. As researchers whose stock in trade is “data”, we have become increasingly interested in the role that data have to play in educational change, particularly in how school and district leaders feel about, understand, and use the mountains of data that are being generated about schools.
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Earl, L., Katz, S. (2002). Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World. In: Leithwood, K., et al. Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0375-9_34
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