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This article explains how states rate schools and why one letter or number can obscure far more than it reveals.
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Even without a national right to education, the United States built one of the world’s most ambitious systems to support, count, and understand its schools.
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Do you have questions about teachers? There is a data source for you!
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In Agora Education Research’s recent blog on the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), Linda Hamilton wrote about the study’s role in measuring digital literacy among 8th graders internationally. The study conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has continuously worked to incorporate test items that are relevant to…
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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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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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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…
