National Education Databases Discussion Board

FIRST: Identify and describe the e-services offered by your home state’s School Boards of Education on their websites. OR: Identify and describe e-services provided at your place of employment. SECOND: Categorize the information that is provided by the website(s) that you described above. For example, are the e-services related to Professional development; Employee benefits; and/or Learner data? Within your initial response ensure that you have written a substantive post of least 150 words with 2 references. In this forum, you need to post a minimum of 4 postings to receive full credit. Each discussion forum has an initial response, and 3 Peer Replies/critiques. (A minimum of 4 forum posts are required and include research related to the topic in your initial post and in response to others’ posts.)

Background:

Access 4 Learning Community. (A4LC). (2017). White papers. Retrieved from http://www.a4l.org/page/WhitePapers

Anonymous. (2017). What’s all the hype? Teach-nology. Retrieved from http://www.teachnology.com/tutorials/databases/

developerWorks. (2011). Schools interoperability framework and SOA: An interoperability bridge. Retrieved from https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/libra…

Institute for Education Sciences. (2017). Tables and figures. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/quicktables

National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). (2017). NASBE state policy database. Retrieved from http://statepolicies.nasbe.org/

U.S. Department of Education. (2012). Proposed priority: Technical assistance on state data collection, analysis, and reporting–National IDEA Technical Assistance Center on Early Childhood Longitudinal Data Systems; CFDA Number 84.373Z: Federal Register Extracts. Education Department Data and Publications.

U.S. Department of Education. (2017). Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Retrieved from https://www.ed.gov/essa

Washington State School Directors’ Association. (2011). The Role of School Boards in Improving Student Achievement: Guiding Principles from WSSDA. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED521566.pdf

Additional Resources

Writing Resources

As indicated via the expectations for each case assignment essay, as well as our session long project – all submissions are to reflect graduate level research and writing skills. The following web-based resources provide excellent guidance toward this end.

APA 6^th Edition Citation Style, Citation Style Management (2010). Cornell University Library. Retrieved May 2012 from http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tut…

APA formatting and style guide (2009), from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue. Retrieved May 2012 from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ .

APA Overview and Workshop (2009), from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue. Retrieved May 2012 from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/664/01/

Avoiding Plagiarism (2009), from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue. Retrieved May 2012 from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

Grammar and Mechanics (2009), from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue. Retrieved May 2012 from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

OTHERS:

Also, please use resource below to explore additional literature support for your topic: search engine sites such as Google

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/