SAN ANTONIO – Education practitioners at the newly formed Arkansas Consortium on School Research (ACSR) embraced the opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking “community of practice”, convened on March 3rd in Monticello, Arkansas. The Consortium, initiated by REL Southwest at Edvance Research, was developed with the goal of improving student outcomes through the utilization of data. State education leaders and practitioners from Arkansas united with education researchers to collaborate on strategies to build their local research capacity and facilitate the use of data in real world scenarios. The Consortium will focus on the issue of college and career readiness, a topic of state and national interest.

 

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