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As researchers, we want data to be timely, relevant, and actionable without sacrificing quality. That is, we want data to be both fast and good. For parents, teachers, and researchers, understanding how K-12 education changed during the COVID-19 pandemic is a key example of those considerations. Data users don’t want to wait years to gain…
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As the world continues to evolve technologically, assessing digital literacy, including AI literacy, is essential to ensure students are prepared for the future workforce and to measure the effectiveness of educational initiatives.
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How did adult literacy skills in the United States change between 2012 and 2023 according to the 2023 PIAAC assessments? Read our analysis in the latest Agora blog by Tom Snyder.
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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.
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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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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…
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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 for running the federally mandated NAEP Program (e.g., the National Assessment of Educational Progress), was…
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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?
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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 doubled from 2003–04 to 2023–24. Such increasing tuition and fees might influence students either to…
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Conferred Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctor’s Degrees in the Health Professions According to data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the numbers of conferred degrees in healthcare programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctor’s levels in the United States have increased in recent years. For decades,…
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