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Longitudinal studies are the deep‑rooted work that yields the clearest picture of how learning unfolds over time.
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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.
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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.
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Part Two of this series is called “From Dial-Up to Data Democracy: How NCES Went Digital (And What Happens Next)”
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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…
