Atlanta schools aggregating detailed data on each student

In a day when teachers have ever more demands put on them to produce positive results in students, Atlanta Public Schools is giving them more tools to do the job.

Atlanta is bringing together the threads of teaching to a student’s strengths and weaknesses by making sure teachers know what those are. The system is on the leading edge of putting data on specifics of a student - from latest test results to what a student wants to do with his or her life - in a tool on teachers’ laptops.

Find out what this may mean for students and teachers in the full story on myAJC.com