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Learning Curve

Student data and school attendance

Adriene Hill Nov 21, 2014
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Learning Curve

Student data and school attendance

Adriene Hill Nov 21, 2014
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Schools are gathering data on kids, and as student databases grow, so does the ability of technology to predict how or what a kid might do next.

Marketplace’s Adriene Hill has been looking at the ways student data is being used to see into the future, and spoke with David Brancaccio to talk about efforts to predict, and change, attendance patterns.

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