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Using Federal Education Data to Inform Policymaking: Part 1–Benefits and...
While federal, state, and district policymakers have used education data as the backbone of their policy and funding decisions for years, there’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to highlight the...
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Using Federal Education Data to Inform Policymaking: Part 2–Challenges and...
In part 1 of this blog series, we highlight the benefits and advantages of using federal education data for policymaking at the federal, state, and district levels. In part 2, we will explore the...
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Using IPEDS Data: Available Tools and Considerations for Use
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) contains comprehensive data on postsecondary institutions. IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and...
View ArticleCelebrating the ECLS-K:2024: Providing Key National Data on Our Country’s...
It’s time to celebrate!This spring, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023–24 (ECLS-K:2024) is wrapping up its first school year of data collection with tens of thousands of...
View ArticleLeveraging Economic Data to Understand the Education Workforce
The Digest of Education Statistics recently debuted 13 new tables on K–12 employment and wages from a data source that is new to the Digest—the Occupational Employment Wage Statistics (OEWS) program of...
View ArticleCelebrating the ECLS-K:2024: Participating Children Are the Key to Increasing...
As we highlighted in our March blog post, NCES is excited to be in the field for the base-year data collection of our newest national early childhood study, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,...
View ArticleNCES Releases Updated 2022–23 Data Table on School District Structures
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has released an updated data table (Excel) on local education agencies (LEAs)1 that serve multiple counties. This new data table—which was updated...
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