Lynette Duncan didn’t expect to spend 20 hours over the past two weeks digging through a mothballed computer system, trying to retrieve admissions data from 2019. Duncan is the director of ...

A Civil Rights Data Collection report found that Black students are overrepresented in special education programs and disciplinary actions, comprising 33 percent of school-related arrests and 20 ...

It is often said that anything you can say about India, the opposite is equally valid. In recent years, data-driven decision-making has become a buzzword in policymaking circles across sectors in the ...

A view of the entrance of Department of Education headquarters on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) The Department of Education under the Trump administration won ...

Dramatic cuts at the U.S. Department of Education have left a “skeletal staff” at offices that oversee research and troves of education data, putting efforts to improve schools at risk, a coalition of ...

In a year so far characterized by massive federal funding and staff cuts, education data groups breathed a sigh of relief this summer when the Department of Education announced it was moving forward ...

An independent research arm within the U.S. Department of Education is being all but shut down, employees of the department say. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for gathering ...

International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) serve to monitor and benchmark educational achievements, providing accurate, ...