A Department of Education database that hosts more than 2 million education documents dating back to the 1960s is set to shut down Wednesday due to funding cuts by the Trump administration’s ...

Months after the Education Department fired nearly all of the employees at the National Center for Education Statistics and axed $900 million in contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, the ...

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 ...

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Mike Aamodt, Ph.D., David Cohen, M.S., Joanna Colosimo, M.A. The Department of Education is proposing major changes to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to include new data on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sara Schapiro writes about education, innovation, and public policy. Feb 26, 2025, 11:01am EST Feb 26, 2025, 01:11pm EST When it ...

The Department of Education has created a database of foreign funding received by universities, although it’s unclear how accurate the information is. The dashboard, launched last week and available ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. Data has the power to revolutionize education—but only if it ...

The National Center for Education Statistics is a relatively obscure federal agency, but its mission – to collect data on the state of education – affects every public school in the country. Now, this ...

A new report urges the Department of Education to implement standards that improve data collection for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Trump administration may derail this work. Native ...

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 ...