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Category: Data Preservation

  • 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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    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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    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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    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 to schools across America and manually recording responses on punch cards. By the time he…


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