In the News

Prism in Tucson Citizen

By: Tucson Citizen

Live and breathe math. Check students’ progress at every corner. Have high expectations and push critical thinking. This is some of the advice representatives from three local schools will give at an Arizona Department of Education conference in Tempe today. The event, “Determined to Succeed: Stories of School Improvement,” highlights Arizona’s 20 “best-in-class” schools. The schools were determined by a recent study by Arizona State University, the Arizona Department of Education and Prism Decision Systems LLC.

Prism in the Arizona Republic

By: Arizona Republic

Twenty of Arizona’s “best-in-class” schools will be highlighted at a conference March 26-27, 2007 sponsored by the Arizona Department of Education in conjunction with Arizona State University. The conference will introduce benchmarking as a school improvement tool. The 20 best-in-class schools, which include district and charter schools, were identified in a study by Prism Decision Systems LLC that analyzed three years of AIMS assessment results for Arizona schools in Grades 3, 8 and 10. Please feel free to download the full newspaper story.

Prism identifies benchmark schools for best practice conference

By: Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin

Please download this newspaper story covering the December 10, 2002 Broome-Tioga BOCES Best Practices Conference for Middle Level Math. Conference organizers used the results of Prism’s frontier analysis of the New York State report card to identify the ten benchmark schools who presented the best practices they believe contribute to their high performance. Over 200 educators were in attendance for the one-day conference.

Frontier Analysis in the Syracuse Post-Standard

By: Fred A. Mohr

See the January 23, 2002 edition of the Syracuse Post-Standard to read about Prism’s use of frontier analysis to benchmark the Oswego City Schools.