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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity charged to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education. Federal statistical agencies have been facing declining budgets and declining public cooperation with federal surveys, which diminishes the utility of the data, and the increasing data collection costs. This consensus study will bring together a multidisciplinary panel to prioritize areas and activities for NCES in the next decade to work towards modernizing education statistics and utilizing multiple sources of data for their statistics.
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Consensus
·2022
The education landscape in the United States has been changing rapidly in recent decades: student populations have become more diverse; there has been an explosion of data sources; there is an intensified focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; educators and policy makers at all le...
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Description
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an ad hoc panel to recommend the future portfolio of activities and products for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). As part of its fact-finding, the panel will:
- Review trends and developments in the use of survey data, administrative data, as well as other potential data sources;
- Consider current and future priorities, operations, and staffing, including how contractors are used; and
- Based on those developments, suggest any desirable changes in the NCES statistical program areas, data collections, data governance, and products.
The panel will produce a final report that prioritizes areas and activities for NCES to pursue as well as a vision for what NCES should aspire to be and how it should operate, including staffing, size, use of contractors, and implications for its budget. The report will also include recommendations for ways to increase the impact of educational statistics produced by NCES, and identify key milestones for NCES to work towards modernizing education statistics.
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Department of Education
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Melissa Chiu
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Nancy Kirkendall
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