Project and Centers
Data Use: Improving Education Practice Through Data Use: Data-Driven Decision-Making
This website provides resources on data-driven decision-making, including reviews of software for analyzing student data. The No Child Left Behind legislation has drawn increased attention to student data. However, data are most useful in educational decision-making when the purpose extends beyond vertical accountability and toward school- and classroom-level decision-making that enhances the experience and achievement of students.
Southwest Center for Accelerated Schools
Accelerated Schools are students, parents, teachers, staff, administrators and other school community members who are striving to develop the best school for every child. The overall goal of Accelerated Schools is to create the school we want for our own children. If a school is not good enough for our own children, it is not good enough for any child.
Study of High School Restructuring
The Houston A+ Challenge (HA+C) received funding from the Carnegie Corporation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, supplemented by the Annenberg Foundation and the Brown Foundation, to support a 5-year initiative to work with 24 large high schools in the Houston Independent School District engaged in a student-focused, whole-school change effort. The initiative, called the Study of High School Restructuring, redesigns high schools into small, theme-based academies to produce graduates ready for the demands of the 21st century.
Stupski Project
The Stupski Foundation has partnered with the University of Texas at Austin. Both entities will be working with selected districts across the nation. The purpose of the course/project is to develop a deep understanding of what it takes to significantly increase student academic achievement and close achievement gap. Research of district reform will be a focus along with examples of districts that have attained significant results. The Foundation's organizational assessment instrument will provide a structure for understanding the reform from a district perspective. Research- based core essential elements in the organizational assessment provide a way of thinking about and understanding the changes that must take place for a district to be high performing.
Texas Center for Education Policy
Building on the University of Texas tradition of distinguished scholarship, the Texas Center for Education Policy is committed to research on equity and excellence in PK-16 education. The Center will promote interdisciplinary and collaborative research, analysis, and dissemination of information to impact the development of educational policy by bringing together university entities in partnership with local, state, national and international education communities.
Higher Education Administration Student/Professional Association (HEASPA)
As the name suggests, HEASPA is an association of higher education administration students studying at the masters and doctoral levels in the Higher Education Administration Program of the Education Administration Department at The University of Texas at Austin.
