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Since 2008, SDP has partnered with school districts, charter networks, state agencies, and nonprofit organizations across the country and around the world to bring high-quality research methods and data analysis to bear on education management and policy decisions.
An initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, SDP was formed on three fundamental premises:
1) Policy and management decisions can directly influence schools' and teachers' ability to improve student achievement.
2) Valid and reliable data analysis significantly improves the quality of decision making.
3) Building an agency's internal capacity to conduct rigorous data analysis is critical to producing and sustaining evidence-driven decisions.
SDP believes that if we are able to bring together the right people, share the right analytic tools, and deliver the right training, we can help leaders make better decisions—significantly improving student achievement.