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Research tends to assume a CTE‑to‑career pipeline, yet it’s not clear that all fields follow it.
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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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Education agencies face different choices when determining achievement levels on new and existing assessment systems: What should students know and be able to do to meet the proficiency standard?
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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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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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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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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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It’s the time of year when college acceptances are rolling out to mailboxes and inboxes nationwide. How are potential enrollees making their choices?
