Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

CALDER-R&R examines policies addressing teacher shortages and their impact on teachers, student learning, and equity. Two important perspectives undergird the Center's work. First is the understanding that teacher shortages are not a single phenomenon. Instead, they exist in specific subject areas (for example, science and mathematics), among teachers from specific backgrounds (for example, teachers from historically marginalized racial and ethnic backgrounds), in specific schools (for e...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has great potential to augment teachers' effectiveness and personalize learning opportunities to enhance both the quality and equity of student learning outcomes. Nevertheless, the content generated by general-purpose AI tools has shortcomings, with limited conceptual depth and inadequate understanding of pedagogical principles and student learning. Consequently, schools and districts are concerned about overreliance on technology as a replacement f...

Funding received under this grant will be used to examine issues related to educational equity in the public educational systems of the state of Washington.

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the State Education Agency, in partnership with the Education Research and Data Center (ERDC) in the Office of Financial Management (OFM) submits this proposal for funding for approximately $7 million under funding opportunity CFDA 84.372 (NCES 15-01).

Washington’s statewide K-12 longitudinal data system has the ability to track individual student enrollment, assessments, and course-taking information, as well as information about teachers. The projects in this proposal will extend those K-12 capabilities by incorporating longitudinal early learning, post-secondary, and workforce information into a unified, comprehensive, and efficient P-20 system.

The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) proposes a four-year project to enhance a statewide K-12 data system to efficiently link and manage individual student data consistent with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. The proposed project titled, the Washington State Longitudinal Data System Project will be built on the existing Comprehensive Education Data and Research System (CEDARS).