Supporting public policy with predictive analytics
When we talk about quality of education, we usually talk about what happens inside a school: how well trained the teachers are, how current the materials are, what kind of access to technology the students have. But many experts, including Dr. Patricio Rodriguez at the Center for Investigation of Advanced Education (CIAE) at the University of Chile, believe the quality of education in a given school is directly connected to the socioeconomic and demographical factors outside the school.