UPDATED: House to Discuss Education Research Reauthorization
A House education subcommittee will hold its first hearing on reauthorizing federal education research law on Wednesday. Read Full Post >
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September 19, 2011
Resource Highlights Data-Driven Decision Making
Education Week resource highlights research and trends in data-driven decision making. Read Full Post >
July 22, 2011
National Data Conference Highlights Privacy, Innovations
The National Center for Education Statistics' annual National Forum on Education Statistics and NCES Data Conference begins next week, and Inside School Research will be live-Tweeting the event. While STATS-D.C. is always geared to the technical side, this year explosion of new sessions on using state longitudinal data systems and the piles of new data coming in from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read Full Post >
July 19, 2011
Common Data Initiative Proposes New Postsecondary Standards
The Common Education Data Standards Initiative released a first draft of the second stage of its core data definitions, intended to get state data systems talking the same language. Read Full Post >
July 19, 2011
Dell Foundation Launches Tool to Connect Student Data
The Austin, Texas-based Michael and Susan Dell Foundation has released a new data standard, intended to help educators and researchers to use information from state and local data systems even before the systems have been aligned. Read Full Post >
July 18, 2011
CALDER to move to the American Institutes for Research
The National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education, or CALDER, today merged with fellow nonprofit, the American Institutes for Research, leaving its previous home at the Urban Institute. Read Full Post >
June 14, 2011
Data Quality Event to Probe States' Longitudinal Systems
The Data Quality Campaign plans a free online seminar on ways to use data from state longitudinal databases. Read Full Post >
March 28, 2011
National Board Seeks Research Frugality for IES
The National Board for Education Sciences is looking for ways to design future research in ways that will make it easier to glean useful information from well-designed studies that showed no or negative effects. Read Full Post >
December 30, 2010
Education Research Use Bill Squeaks into Congress
In the waning hours of the 111th Congress, New Jersey Democratic Rep. Rush Holt introduced a bill to help educators translate research into usable classroom knowledge. Read Full Post >
December 28, 2010
What Made Research Relevant in 2010?
Education research saw an influx of federal money this year, but scholars voice continuing frustration with translating research into practice. Read Full Post >
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