The accuracy of federal education data
Correcting mistakes may be an essential part of a good education, but that doesn’t apply inside the branch of the U.S. government that compiles and keeps education statistics. Indeed, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) knowingly leaves in errors that are discovered two to three years later. And then this error-ridden data is used […]
Education data events
I’d like to keep an ongoing list of education data events. Please email me or post a comment if you know of others. APRIL/MAY 2013 The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) annual meeting is taking place Saturday, April 27 to Wednesday, May 1,2013 in San Francisco, California. This year’s theme is “education and poverty” and […]
Clean, clean, clean before you crunch those big data sets
Anyone interested in how data science might transform education should read The Dirty Little Secret of Big Data Projects. David Dietrich, an impressive data geek consultant at EMC’s education unit who’s been involved with a big data lab at MIT, wrote that 80% of your time on a data project will be spent on the […]
The politics of education data in Florida
The national debate over making student and teacher records more accessible is playing out in the state of Florida. Last week (week of April 8th, 2013) the Florida Senate voted to consolidate education records in a single, online database. It’s still far from becoming law, but the debate is quite similar to the one over […]
Introducing Education by the Numbers
The fetishization of data has hit both education and journalism. And that’s why I’m starting this datablog. My aims are many. I plan to list and summarize which data sets and studies are available on certain education topics as a resource for journalists and other lay people. I’d like to write about interesting people who […]
