Institute of Education Sciences

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as The Nation’s Report Card, which is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in public and private schools in the United States know and can do in various subjects. The data ...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released findings from the September School Pulse Panel (SPP) survey from a collection of public schools in four U.S. Outlying Areas. These data examine after-school programs, summer programs, mitigation strategies, learning mode offerings, and quarantine prevalence, as reported by school staff in public ...

This toolkit (PDF, 78 pages) guides educators in developing and improving practical measurement instruments for use in networked improvement communities (NICs) and other education contexts where continuous improvement principles are used. It aims to help teams of educators with the final process in the cycle, which includes collecting data to ...

This toolkit (PDF, 78 pages) guides educators in developing and improving practical measurement instruments for use in networked improvement communities (NICs) and other education contexts where continuous improvement principles are used. It aims to help teams of educators with the final process in the cycle, which includes collecting data to ...

This report (PDF, 93 pages) describes the experiences of 2015–16 bachelor’s degree earners during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 4 years after graduation. Findings include professional and personal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal student loan repayment, employment status and characteristics, changes to work arrangements, and unemployment compensation during the COVID-19 ...

This report (PDF, 18 pages) uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, a national study of more than 23,000 ninth-graders. It shows differences in postsecondary enrollment and employment outcomes from those who earned traditional high school diplomas and those who had not completed high school as of ...

The latest round of findings from the School Pulse Panel (SPP) has been released. These SPP data examine community partnerships, technology/digital literacy, staffing, and hiring processes, as reported by school leaders in U.S. public schools. Learn more. 

The National Center for Education Research (NCER) has awarded grants to establish the following three research networks:   The Leveraging Evidence to Accelerate Recovery Nationwide Network (LEARN Network). This network will support adaptation and scaling of evidence-based products that have the potential to accelerate learning for K-12 students affected by the COVID-19 ...

This report (PDF, 67 pages) presents outcomes of 2015–16 bachelor’s degree earners 4 years after graduation. It uses data from the 2016/20 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study and includes information on enrollment and employment status, federal student loan debt and repayment, earnings and other job characteristics, financial well-being, and teaching ...

Data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall 2021 collection are now publicly available. This set of provisional web tables include data from three survey components: Institutional characteristics for the 2021-22 academic year (i.e., cost of attendance), completions covering the period July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021 ...