The Strategic Data Project is featured in the following Harvard Gazette article.
“I make numbers talk,” Richard Bowman likes to say when describing his new profession.
But he isn’t in finance or economics, he’s in education policy, and he hopes to use his analytic expertise to help reform the country’s public school systems with the help of a program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE).
Since 2008, the [Strategic Data Project] (SDP), under Harvard’s [Center for Education Policy Research], has placed fellows like Bowman in state education agencies, school districts, and charter school management organizations where they are helping policymakers to decode an avalanche of educational data. Their mission is to transform the use of data in education to improve student achievement.
“We are creating a new profession in education called analytic leaders,” said SDP Executive Director Sarah Glover. “These are people who are facile with data, strong analytically, and who know how to think about problem solving.”
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