Dr. Stephanie Stillman, MCPER’s director of assessment, attended the 23rd annual Management Information Systems (MIS) Conference, titled “Data and Education Systems Enabled by Reliable Technologies (DESERTech),” from March 3 to 5 in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference explored “information about best practices, innovative ideas, current issues, and practical how-to advice about management information systems for K–12 education,” according to the conference Web site. The conference brought together “the people who work with information collection, management, transmittal, and reporting in school districts and state education agencies … More than 80 presentations, demonstrations, and workshops [were] conducted by practitioners from K–12 information systems.” The National Center for Education Statistics and the Arizona Department of Education sponsored the conference.
