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Virginia to Expand Post-High School Tracking

Do students who take math in their senior year of high school fare better in their freshman year of college?

If that doesn’t help, what does?

Virginia education officials hope to find the answer to those questions and countless others by broadening the state’s student tracking system to follow graduates after high school.

The state’s massive data system, which assigns every public school student in Virginia an identifier to track them through their school career, would link to college and workforce data through a $17.5 million federal stimulus grant.

By Olympia Meola, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Full Story: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/05/25/33mct_vatracking.html?tkn=RRTFIC45XrKHheABVdLnkaXmscq%2FMaGV8Uoz&cmp=clp-edweek

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