Not what you think. This article describes the use of knowledge management approaches for educational administration. In one example, it proposes tracking disciplinary incidents according to student, class, race, time of day, and so on, in order to identify likely causes (in the example, a poorly trained teacher). According to one commentator, "Knowledge Management in Education supplies us with a framework for understanding how good assessment practice, in fact, depends on effective information management." Even ignoring the rampant disregard for privacy that such an approach entails, and even ignoring the liklihood that it will trace causes to observable surface characteristics (like race), such an approach will fail because it misrepresents the relation between knowledge and data. If you are tasked with enforcing discipline in an environment where some sort of knowledge management tool is required to understand (let alone identify) the cases where discipline is required, then you are faced with a structural dysfunctionality that no amount of data is going to correct.
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