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  • Natural Disasters in Longitudinal Education Data

    Natural Disasters in Longitudinal Education Data

    Sep 29, 2025

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    by

    David Richards
    in Data Analysis, Higher education

    Without longitudinal education data, it may be harder for researchers to determine the immediate or long-term impacts many of these natural events will have on the persistence and attainment of U.S. postsecondary students.


  • How are the Pandemic Toddlers Doing in School?  Without the ECLS Data, We Just Don’t Know.

    How are the Pandemic Toddlers Doing in School?  Without the ECLS Data, We Just Don’t Know.

    Sep 23, 2025

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    Jodi Jacobson Chernoff
    in Data Analysis, Data Preservation, Reporting, Schools, Test and Survey

    The ECLS-K:2024 was poised to reveal how pandemic-era disruptions shaped the school readiness of today’s kindergarteners, but the study was canceled leaving parents and educators unsure as to how to help our youngest students succeed in school


  • 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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    by

    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.


  • From Paper to Cloud: The Evolution of NCES Data Stewardship Over 150 Years: Part II

    From Paper to Cloud: The Evolution of NCES Data Stewardship Over 150 Years: Part II

    Sep 1, 2025

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    by

    Carolyn Grim
    in Data Preservation

    Part Two of this series is called “From Dial-Up to Data Democracy: How NCES Went Digital (And What Happens Next)”


  • From Paper to Cloud: The Evolution of NCES Data Stewardship Over 150 Years: Part I

    From Paper to Cloud: The Evolution of NCES Data Stewardship Over 150 Years: Part I

    Aug 28, 2025

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    by

    Carolyn Grim
    in Data Preservation

    Part One: “From Paper to Punch Cards: How NCES Revolutionized Education Data (1867-1990s)” When Gerald “Jerry” Malitz began his career at the National Center for Education Statistics in 1974 as a GS-5 graduate student, data collection meant mailing paper forms…


  • The Many Uses of the Main NAEP Study

    The Many Uses of the Main NAEP Study

    Aug 23, 2025

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    Kathleen Flanagan
    in Test and Survey

    Did you know that NAEP (The National Assessment of Educational Progress) leads the way in publishing grade-level assessment content and National Standards (through the NAEP Frameworks) in the tested areas and grade levels? That’s right, since 1990, the Main NAEP…


  • 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…


  • What We’re Losing When DOGE Cuts the U.S. Department of Education

    What We’re Losing When DOGE Cuts the U.S. Department of Education

    Jul 24, 2025

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    Kathleen Flanagan
    in Data Analysis, Reporting, Schools, Test and Survey

    By: Kathleen Flanagan, Ph.D. Department of Education Cuts The Federal Department of Education (ED) was largely decimated by the 2025 DOGE budget cuts. Staffing at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the research and measurement arm of ED responsible…


  • Moving data collection outside the federal space

    Moving data collection outside the federal space

    Jun 30, 2025

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    by

    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?


  • U.S. Postsecondary Institutions’ Average Tuition and Fees Roughly Double in 20 Years

    U.S. Postsecondary Institutions’ Average Tuition and Fees Roughly Double in 20 Years

    Jun 11, 2025

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    Tiffany Yanosky
    in Data Analysis, Reporting, Schools

    According to data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the average annual tuition and fees for full-time students at postsecondary institutions in the United States, after adjusting for inflation, roughly…


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