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2024

March 26, 2024
Five Years Closer to CTE Success + A Farewell
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February 13, 2024
Statistically Significant Doesn't Mean Meaningful
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January 23, 2024
Help Us Grow Seedlings
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2023

November 28, 2023
The Path Forward for NCADE, Part I
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October 16, 2023
Math Autoscoring is Finally Here—Let's Tap Its Potential for Improving Student Performance
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July 5, 2023
IES and Accelerating Learning Recovery
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April 19, 2023
What's on tap at IES for the next year?
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March 30, 2023
My Thanks to IES Staff on Our 20th Anniversary
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March 1, 2023
Big Dreams for Big Data: A Look Ahead
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February 2, 2023
Innovation in the Education Sciences (the new IES)
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January 4, 2023
Do we need humans anymore?
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2022

November 16, 2022
Groundhog Day? Different test. Same story.
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November 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Education's Independent and Nonpartisan Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Celebrates 20th Anniversary
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November 2, 2022
NAEP Release: What to Know, What to Admit We Don't Know
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September 13, 2022
Addressing the COVID Learning Crisis
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September 1, 2022
Downward Trends: Pre- and Post-pandemic NAEP Results
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July 28, 2022
Modernizing IES Using Large Data Libraries
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July 14, 2022
Accelerating Research on Special Education
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June 15, 2022
An Overlooked Success: IPEDS Outcome Measures
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June 2, 2022
Using Prize Competitions to Revamp IES' R&D Infrastructure
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April 7, 2022
Statement on A Vision and Roadmap for Education Sciences
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March 31, 2022
Statement on The Future of Education Research at IES
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March 24, 2022
Statement on A Pragmatic Future for NAEP
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March 23, 2022
"Education Runs on Lies"
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February 2, 2022
Recap: The 2022 Annual Principal Investigators Meeting
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2021

December 20, 2021
The Year in Data (Education): IES Takes Steps to Catalyze a New Field
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December 14, 2021
IES Learning Acceleration Challenges
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November 9, 2021
Gathering Speed with SEERNet, Prize Competitions, and More
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September 15, 2021
"Better is Good"
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August 31, 2021
Update on the IES Use of ARP Funds
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August 24, 2021
The Conference Circuit Reboots + What AI is Leaving Behind
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June 29, 2021
To Build a STEM Workforce, We Must Invest in Education Science. But a Bill Congress Is Considering Doesn't Go Far Enough
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May 26, 2021
If it wasn't for bad news, would there be any news at all?
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May 24, 2021
Charting the Future of NCES: Our First NASEM Panel Discussion
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May 4, 2021
Catching Up When You Started Behind
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April 14, 2021
Turning to the Future
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April 7, 2021
Reflecting on Three Years at IES
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March 22, 2021
Compete to win the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge
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March 16, 2021
The Road to Learning Recovery
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January 12, 2021
A Year for Reflection and Continued Transformation
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2020

December 9, 2020
Operation Reverse the Loss, Redux
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November 2, 2020
Res ipsa loquitur
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October 26, 2020
Introducing Operation Reverse the Loss
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September 28, 2020
On Learning and Loss in a Time of Covid
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August 31, 2020
The Value of Cost Analysis
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August 6, 2020
Acting on Diversity
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July 22, 2020
IES Plays the Long Game
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May 27, 2020
New Directions for Next Year's Funding Opportunities
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May 12, 2020
IES Centers: A Reassessment
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May 5, 2020
Making Common Measures More Common
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April 14, 2020
A New Tool to Support Cost Analysis in Education Research
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March 31, 2020
IES in a Time of Pandemic
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March 3, 2020
Scaling is the New Black
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February 4, 2020
Research-Practice Partnerships, Redux
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January 22, 2020
A New Look for IES
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January 8, 2020
A New Year's Update from the Director of IES
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2019

December 9, 2019
Update on Topic Areas and Other Thoughts About Upcoming RFAs
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June 19, 2019
We Need Your Feedback on Research Topics: Who Gets Voted Off the Island?
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June 19, 2019
Some Thoughts on the New IES RFAs
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April 23, 2019
First Year Accomplishments
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April 15, 2019
List of Proposed Interventions for the Systematic Replication RFA
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March 5, 2019
The Leaning Tower of PISA
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February 25, 2019
PISA Is a Unique Resource for Testing Educational Attainment of 15-Year-Olds in 78 Countries. Adding 40 More Would Be a Mistake
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2018

December 17, 2018
A More Systematic Approach to Replicating Research
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November 14, 2018
How to Make Education Research Relevant to Teachers
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October 10, 2018
An update on the IES version of LEED standards
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September 5, 2018
Changes Are Coming to Research Competitions
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July 30, 2018
Developing an Evidence Base for Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
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June 14, 2018
Changes Are Coming to What Works Clearinghouse
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