In addition to providing a variety of lifestyle offers across its affiliate network, Blue Phoenix Media also operates an education vertical–The Academic Network–in addition to its plethora of education-related offers as well. This provides an excellent segue to a glimpse inside how the education world is finding new ways to innovate as school budgets shrink and class sizes grow.

The cover of the June 2010 Forbes proclaims, What Schools Can Learn from Money Managers. And Daniel Fisher‘s cover story for the money mag sheds light on a new trend that initially seems like a cold approach to education in under-resourced schools. It’s an approach that reduces students to complex sets of data–culled together from information like quiz and homework scores.

These non-profit agencies are able to determine–from studying all this data–whether an entire classroom is struggling with a concept or just a single student and modify lesson plans accordingly. The overall difference is apparent on many levels. On the student-level, it means there are more students are completing school and are better-suited to deal with the rigors of finding work afterwards. On the administrative level, it means that with access to such data and higher salaries than their public school counterparts, teachers have a greater motivation to revisit and tweak lesson plans for maximum impact.

As the cost of education in this country continues to soar beyond $661 billion with education rates failing to increase proportionally, the progress of such data-driven education seems merely incremental.

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