Beyond the Rating
Texas school ratings need context. Look up a campus or district, compare it with schools serving similar students, and see how the overall grade is built.
MICAH TAYLOR·EDUCATION / DATA / APPLIED AI
Look closer.
Make it useful.
FIELD LABQuestions → Evidence
→ Something you can use
→ Something you can use
Tools for making sense of education data,
built around real questions.
01 / SELECTED WORK
Context changes the picture.
A school rating. A funding figure. A writing score.
Each becomes more useful when you can see what’s behind it.
4 projects
Texas TIA Explorer
Find nearby approved Teacher Incentive Allotment systems. Search by ZIP code or district and compare public designation and allotment data.
ECR Score Explorer
Make the differences between writing scores visible. Compare anonymized student responses, examine writing moves, and connect what you notice to what to teach next.
ECR Outside In
Eight statewide essay-score distributions, read from the edge inward. Explore a grade, inspect the numbers behind the rings, and export a view to share.
02 / FIELD NOTES
The thinking
along the way.
Questions from the work, decisions worth explaining, and things still taking shape.
The Bottleneck Was Never the Prompt
Cassie Kozyrkov argues that judgment is the last skill standing. I think she's right, and I'd add one thing she leaves on the table.
· 5 min read
Read the note →03 / BEHIND THE WORK
Better questions.
Useful tools.
Room for judgment.
I’m Micah Taylor, an educator in North Texas. My work is in assessment and accountability: asking whether something is working and bringing evidence to the answer.
These projects apply that habit to public data, interactive tools, and questions worth a closer look. The work comes first here. You can explore it, inspect its sources, and decide what is useful in your own context.
Show the evidence.Keep the context.Leave room for questions.