Sentences with phrase «federal education data»

on Federal education data show male - female wage gap among young college graduates remains high

And in August 2015, the New York Times reported on a new analysis of federal education data at the University of Pennsylvania, which found alarming trends in suspension rates for black students in 13 southern states, including North Carolina.

America is overdue for a thorough upgrading of federal education data gathering and analysis, primarily housed at the National Center for Education Statistics, as well as needed strengthening and expansion of - and enhanced independence for - the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The decreases occurred even though overall appropriations for education research increased in the same period, according to Lois - ellin Datta, director of human - services program evaluation for the gao She said the situation had improved only marginally since the agency reported a signficant decline in the quality and quantity of federal education data nearly two years ago.

Citing state and federal education data, the document also points to a «substantial» decline in the number of California school librarians in recent years and...

Not exact matches

The U.S. Department of Education centralizes all federal student aid information through its National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS).

It creates a model using data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances and other datasets to estimate household debt and assets, comparing the projected debts and assets of a college - educated household with average levels of education debt to a similar household without debt.

In an effort to simplify the multi-layered and sometimes confusing matrix of state and federal services for children, North Carolina is creating an integrated data system to collect education, health...

The fact is that New York spends more on education per student than any other state in the union — an average $ 18,126 each, according to the latest federal data.

State operations director Jim Malatras cited federal Department of Education data, which put administrative overhead at CUNY at $ 4,634 per student, versus $ 3,804 at SUNY.

Science and Engineering Indicators is the most comprehensive source of high - quality federal data on a wide range of topics that include trends in global R&D investments and knowledge - intensive production, K - 12 and postsecondary STEM education, workforce trends and composition, state level comparisons, and public attitudes and understanding of science and related issues.

Over time, the government has come to rely on data from the census and its longer annual offshoot, the American Community Survey (ACS), to allocate half - a-trillion dollars through health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, education, and other federal programs.

That includes everything from income and earnings data submitted to the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration to what individuals provide when they apply for housing, nutrition, education, agriculture, and any number of federal assistance programs.

Many archaeologists hoped that designating Bears Ears a national monument would help to mitigate this damage by boosting the budgets of federal land managers — allowing them to hire more staff, collect more baseline data on archaeological sites and do more outreach and education.

Based on data provided by the federal government's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on female enrollment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at universities across the nation, IU Bloomington ranks 11th in the nation and second in the Big 10 in The College Database's 50 Colleges Advancing Women in Sdata provided by the federal government's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on female enrollment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at universities across the nation, IU Bloomington ranks 11th in the nation and second in the Big 10 in The College Database's 50 Colleges Advancing Women in SData System on female enrollment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at universities across the nation, IU Bloomington ranks 11th in the nation and second in the Big 10 in The College Database's 50 Colleges Advancing Women in STEM.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

In planning for the 1988 survey — which provides the only federal data on civil - rights compliance in education — O.C.R. has quietly inched back toward its old method, rescinding a change that allowed large districts to sample only certain schools and designing the sample to include more districts that have not been surveyed recently.

State education officials and local school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic - stimulus package to develop initiatives that do everything from consolidate data systems to create high - quality digital content for school laptops.

An Education Week analysis of federal data finds that all 50 states and most territories reported experiencing statewide shortages in one teaching area or another for either...

In the NAEP analysis, the authors estimate student poverty with data from the federal lunch program and estimate additional student characteristics using data on possession of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) and English Language Learner (ELL) status, admittedly a common practice when analyzing educatEducation Program (IEP) and English Language Learner (ELL) status, admittedly a common practice when analyzing educationeducation data.

An Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data shows spending levels per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013.

Washington — State education officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to theducation officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to thEducation (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to the states.

... The researchers, David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz, and Noam Yuchtman, used data from the federal government's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or IPEDS, for their analysis.&radata from the federal government's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or IPEDS, for their analysis.&raData System, or IPEDS, for their analysis.»

For every policy that a state department education or the federal government erects in connection with or reliant on summative assessment data, however, the longer it will take states to back off of «Measurement 2.0,» and realize the potential of formative assessment as a teaching, learning, and accountability tool.

Efforts led by the Ed - Fi Alliance, the Access for Learning Community, and the federal government's Common Education Data Standards program, all aim to promote common sets of data standaData Standards program, all aim to promote common sets of data standadata standards.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Data released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education on the $ 3.5 billion School Improvement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven't just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less - drastic school improvement efforts.

It denies any federal role in education whatsoever, with no mention even of data, research, or civil rights (save for a dig at OCR over its gratuitous fiddling with school bathroom gender access).

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) IPEDS combines the surveys conducted by the U. S. Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to provide information on all postsecondary institutions as well as all technical and vocational schools participating in federal student aid programs or Title IV funding programs (NCES, n.d).

According to the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, all institutions receiving Title IV funds must submit specific data about their educational programs, student population, enrollment, attrition, and completion rates, staff and faculty, financial information, tuition and fees, and allocation of all student financial aid (NCES, n.d.) IPEDS HistoryIn 1995, NCES established the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) as a «voluntary organization that encompasses all sectors of the postsecondary education community including federal agencies, postsecondary institutions, associations, and other organizations interested in postsecondary education data collection» (NPEC, n.dEducation Act (HEA) of 1965, all institutions receiving Title IV funds must submit specific data about their educational programs, student population, enrollment, attrition, and completion rates, staff and faculty, financial information, tuition and fees, and allocation of all student financial aid (NCES, n.d.) IPEDS HistoryIn 1995, NCES established the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) as a «voluntary organization that encompasses all sectors of the postsecondary education community including federal agencies, postsecondary institutions, associations, and other organizations interested in postsecondary education data collection» (NPEC, n.dEducation Cooperative (NPEC) as a «voluntary organization that encompasses all sectors of the postsecondary education community including federal agencies, postsecondary institutions, associations, and other organizations interested in postsecondary education data collection» (NPEC, n.deducation community including federal agencies, postsecondary institutions, associations, and other organizations interested in postsecondary education data collection» (NPEC, n.deducation data collection» (NPEC, n.d., p. 4).

AEU Federal President Correna Haythorpe welcomed Education Minister Christopher Pyne's confirmation this week that the long - awaited National Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) would be completed this year and used to inform funding for students with disability from 2016.

The federal education law permits the Education Department to use either data from the Census Bureau or data collected by states to distribute the $ 650 million for English - language learners authorized by Title III of the NCLB law to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Pueeducation law permits the Education Department to use either data from the Census Bureau or data collected by states to distribute the $ 650 million for English - language learners authorized by Title III of the NCLB law to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and PueEducation Department to use either data from the Census Bureau or data collected by states to distribute the $ 650 million for English - language learners authorized by Title III of the NCLB law to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.

Our graduates work for state and federal departments of education, they launch and lead non-profit organizations and school - community partnerships, they conduct research and data analysis for policy think tanks, and they lead progressive schools and school districts.

While the federal government pays for only a small fraction of public K — 12 education expenses around the country, new data reveal that federal funding pays for a significant portion of SEA salaries.

The most recent data available from the federal government is for the 2001 - 2002 school year, from the Common Core of Data of the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Educatdata available from the federal government is for the 2001 - 2002 school year, from the Common Core of Data of the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of EducatData of the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education.

Although the federal government's main accountability lever — eligibility for federal grants and loans — is only implemented at the institution level for most of higher education, the GE data show the value of targeting individual programs, rather than entire institutions.

Federal and state officials collect data about the characteristics of students with disabilities and certain outcomes for those students, but little is known about the quality of education they receive, according to a report from the Editorial Projects in Education Researceducation they receive, according to a report from the Editorial Projects in Education ResearcEducation Research Center.

In fact, on average, the federal government funds nearly half — 41 percent — of the salary expenditures at state education departments in the 34 states for which comprehensive data are available (see Figure 1).

New research by Jonathan Butcher shows that, on average, federal money pays for 41 percent of the salary expenditures at state education departments in the 34 states for which comprehensive data are available — but federal requirements are disproportionate to the federal contribution.

Over the past decade, districts, states and the federal government have invested heavily in education data systems.

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

Studies of participation in special education typically rely on school district records, either used at the student - level through administrative data or aggregated and reported up to the federal level as required by Individuals with Disabilities Education Aceducation typically rely on school district records, either used at the student - level through administrative data or aggregated and reported up to the federal level as required by Individuals with Disabilities Education AcEducation Act (IDEA).

Despite billions of federal and local dollars being spent to build longitudinal data systems, Professor Thomas Kane, faculty director of CEPR, knew that underutilized data held key answers to education questions.

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said for the first time this early in the year, the data showed international student numbers had grown 12 per cent to 509,610 in the year to February 2018, on top of a 54 per cent increase over the past five years since the current Federal Government came to power in 2013.

The draft report, which was commissioned by the Federal Government in March, says that better education outcomes will result from the ability to identify and evaluate better policies, programs and teaching practices based on available data.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

The U.S. Department of Education has launched a campaign to help school officials channel the flood of student data generated in federal accountability reporting and state longitudinal databases without leaking students» or teachers» private information.

Student testing and evaluation services generated the most mentions of the federal education law, according to a review of data from across the country.

According to the federal government's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the school districts in which our survey respondents resided spent an average of $ 12,440 per pupil in 2012 (the most recent data available).