• Assembled a team of 20+ of the nation’s foremost education researchers and statisticians
  • Secured nonprofit status
  • Presented our capabilities at both AERA and NCME conferences to tremendous response
  • Launched our infrastructure platform at edevaluator.org using personal funds

 “Without an IES and the federal education statistical agency it houses, the studies and evidence-based findings produced by our members are gravely undermined. Our graduate students are stalled in their work and upended in their progress toward a degree. Practitioners and policymakers also suffer great harm as they are left to drive decisions without the benefit of empirical data and high-quality research.”
Dr. Felice J. Levine, Executive Director of AERA


“You’re talking about millions of dollars worth of investment just vanishing…NCES existed for over 100 years before the Department of Education was ever founded because one of the legitimate purposes of the federal government in education is collecting data so that people can see how schools are doing. We need to make data-driven decisions.”
Dr. James (Lynn) Woodworth, commissioner of NCES (2018–2021)

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