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“The Measure of Everyday Life” is a weekly public radio program featuring researchers, practitioners, and professionals discussing their work to improve the human condition. Independent Weekly has called the show ‘unexpected’ and ‘diverse’ and notes that the show ‘brings big questions to radio.'

Episodes air Sunday nights at 6:30 PM EST in the Raleigh-Durham, NC, media market (and also are streamed internationally through WNCU) and are available online the Wednesday following the original airing. WNCU produces the show with major underwriting from the nonprofit RTI International.

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Nov 21, 2018

Using data to improve our predictions and performance has been a popular theme for popular culture in recent years. Our understanding of everything from politics to sports has been transformed by new techniques for gathering data and analyzing numbers. How could advanced analytic techniques be used to optimize student performance and maybe even close some achievement gaps between groups? On this episode, we talk with Janet Johnson, CEO of Edstar Analytics, about the future of decision making for math placement and student success.