Archive

• States urge schools to use AI, but leave teachers on their own to stop cheating Chalkbeat 9/2/26
• Analysis: The Head Start NPRM First Five Years Fund 9/1/26
• OPINION: Knowing how to use AI tools is not the same as knowing how to apply them responsibly. Colleges must do more Hechinger Report 8/31/26
• A Vision and Strategy for Remaking the National Center for Education Statistics American Statistical Association 8/26/26
• The Nation’s Federal Funding Source for Education Research Hangs in the Balance 7/30/26
• Senate Panel Advances Bill to Block Much of Trump Admin’s Ed. Dept. Dismantling 7/30/26
• Building the National Data Ecosystem America Deserves 7/29/26 from USAFacts which also houses an interesting Eduction Statistics page.
• Education researchers warn political review of federal grants could reshape what gets studied 7/20/26
• Restoring funding for Congressionally mandated education programs 6/30/26
• Education Department officials deny doing an end run around Congress 6/25/26
• Public Comment about changes to federal grantmaking regulations that could significantly affect federally funded education research 6/12/26
• New Commerce Policy on Disclosure Avoidance and responses by DataIndex, ASA, and COPAFS 6/11/26
• American Statistical Association recommendations on modernizations and collaborations across the federal statistics system
• An Idea Whose Time Has Come: IES Welcomes New Programs to NCEE and NCER, Matt Soldner’s IES blog 6/4/26
• Withholding of Federal Education Research Funding – Please take this impact survey from NEA
• The Neoliberal Superego of Education Policy: Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality. The Boston Review 5/28/26
• Bipartisan Letter from U.S. Senators Merkley, Tillis, and Warren on Releasing IES funding – 5/11/26  This letter and another were written up by K12-dive on May 26, 2026.   – 5/26/26
• A Bad Supreme Court Decision Is Hard to Undo Education Next – 5/26/26
• Pressure mounts for Ed Dept to release research funds – K12 Dive 5/22/26
• ED not properly prepared to help States with the Canvas breach – 5/12/26 
• The Trump administration is deleting government data – 5/7/26
• School data goes stale after Trump cuts Education Department research arm – Chalkbeat (featuring Agora’s Tom Snyder) 5/7/26
• How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet, The New Yorker __4/27/26
• College or Career Readiness? Postsecondary and Labor Market Outcomes for Ohio High School Students Earning Industry-Recognized Credentials
• The Case for a National Assessment of Flourishing and Participation – Education Next
• What Will Life Be Like after the Education Department? Look at What Came Before, Experts Say —4/20/26
• What Will Life Be Like after the Education Department? Look at What Came Before, Experts Say —4/20/26
• Amber Northern’s report on Reimagining IES released 2/27/26. Reactions from the field: Hechinger report 3/8/26, NCES’s response, K-12 Dive, Betsy Wolf’s substack, Chalkbeat —4/6/26
• Agora launches the Agora Research Academy —4/13/26
• Massachusetts Federal Court Halts ACTS Survey in Seventeen States —4/6/26
• Public Commenting on Federal Data: More Powerful (and More Doable) Than It Looks —4/1/26
• The Ed. Dept. Is Sending 118 Programs to Other Agencies. See Where They’re Going
• The Education Department’s 9 interagency agreements: What is going where
• IHEP Launches National Project to Reimagine Federal Postsecondary Data Infrastructure
• Amber Northern’s report on Reimagining IES released 2/27/26. Reactions from the field: Hechinger report 3/8/26, NCES’s response, K-12 Dive, Betsy Wolf’s substack, Chalkbeat
• Agora Education Research’s response to the IES Redesign RFI ED-2025-IES-0844
• ASA lists Agora in its Ongoing or Recent National Center for Education Statistics-Related Projects Led by Other Organizations
• The Nation’s Data at Risk: Ongoing Monitoring
• The Ed. Dept. Is Sending 118 Programs to Other Agencies. See Where They’re Going
• The Education Department’s 9 interagency agreements: What is going where
• IHEP Launches National Project to Reimagine Federal Postsecondary Data Infrastructure
• Amber Northern’s report on Reimagining IES released 2/27/26. Reactions from the field: Hechinger report 3/8/26,  NCES’s response, K-12 Dive,  Betsy Wolf’s substack, Chalkbeat, IHEP
• Agora Education Research’s response to the IES Redesign RFI ED-2025-IES-0844
• “Education for peace” is overly simplified rhetoric. Brookings comment on U.S. opening remarks at the UN Security Council
• ASA lists Agora in its Ongoing or Recent National Center for Education Statistics-Related Projects Led by Other Organizations
• The Nation’s Data at Risk: Ongoing Monitoring
• Bloomberg article on How To Shred a Federal Agency
• Agora founder Carolyn Grim interviewed for podcast “On The Sunny Side of the Street”
• Ed Week article The Trump Administration Has Mostly Dismantled the Ed Dept. Should You Care? 3/16/26
• Former NCES Commissioner and University of Maryland research professor elected to the National Academy of Education. Also see https://naeducation.org/nineteen-education-leaders-and-scholars-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-education/
• Understanding Results of State Tests in the Context of the National Assessment: A Look at Grade 8 Mathematics in Kansas and Iowa 1/28/26 Dan McGrath
• Agora Education Research’s response to the IES Redesign RFI ED-2025-IES-0844
• Summary of the general recommendations on IES redesign https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xTOumLvISMadDc3uBACGwKSXlnYg9HjX/edit, 1/15/2026
• EdWeek article about 2026 Congressional funding, which retains most of the  previous year’s funding  1/20/2026
• Summary of FY 2026 Education Appropriation Bill 1/20/2026
• Hechinger  Report Article about the challenges faced by post-secondary institutions to comply with current federal education requests. 1/19/2026
• The Federal Government Hasn’t Been Meeting Our Need for Unbiased Ed. Research, EdWeek 1/8/2026
• 74 million article summing up the top education stories for 2025,  12/29/2026
• ASA Lecture: Praivacy (noun) Pronounced: /ˈprā-və-sē/ Balancing data confidentiality and utility, 1/23/2026
• NCME’s Educational Measurement 5th Edition is now free online, 12/27/2025
• Krishnamoorthi Raises Concerns Over Trump Administration Efforts to Dismantle the Department of Education, Weakening America’s Ability to Develop STEM and AI Workforce, 12/18/2025