eScholar CDW 14.0 Expands Support for Teacher Evaluations, Common Core

eScholar has released eScholar Complete Data Warehouse 14.0, an update to the company's flagship data-driven decision making tool for education.

eScholar CDW is a data warehousing platform available in configurations for both K-12 and higher education. According to eScholar, it's in use by 4,800 individual districts and 13 state education agencies, representing about 20 million students in total.

The latest release adds several major features, including new support for Common Core State Standards through a partnership with Academic Benchmarks. The implementation allows schools to link student progress to the Common Core standards.

The new version also enhances support for teacher evaluations and adds tools for measuring student progress to "drive personalized approaches to improving individual student outcomes." It also includes a new feature that lets districts track and analyze transportation information "to create efficiencies in route planning and fleet management."

eScholar CDW 14.0 is available now. Additional details can be found on eScholar's site.

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