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Author: Elise Christopher

  • Losing the richness of education data: Arts education and teacher research impacts

    Losing the richness of education data: Arts education and teacher research impacts

    Sep 15, 2025

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    Elise Christopher
    in Data Preservation, Reporting, Schools

    Dr. Ken Elpus from UMD shares how losing access to rich, national data like NCES’ affects the field of arts education and downstream users of the data.

  • Summer melt is happening… the numbers to watch are not the temperature

    Summer melt is happening… the numbers to watch are not the temperature

    Aug 13, 2025

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    Elise Christopher
    in Data Analysis, Higher education, Test and Survey

    It’s not just the temperature that’s on the rise right now… It’s also summer melt… that phenomenon where, even as this post is written, somewhere in the US a student who was planning to start college this fall is thinking that maybe they just won’t go…

  • Moving data collection outside the federal space

    Moving data collection outside the federal space

    Jun 30, 2025

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    Elise Christopher
    in Data Analysis, Higher education, Project Leadership

    What might private data collectors and entities outside the federal government do to cover the data loss as a result of recent cuts to federal data collection agencies?

  • College decision time: Longitudinal data spotlight

    College decision time: Longitudinal data spotlight

    Apr 24, 2025

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    Elise Christopher
    in Data Analysis, Reporting

    It’s the time of year when college acceptances are rolling out to mailboxes and inboxes nationwide. How are potential enrollees making their choices?

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