What's New for November 2023
NCES Releases the 2019 NAEP High School Transcript Study (HSTS) User's Guide and Technical Report (November 30, 2023)
The National Center for Education Statistics releases the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) High School Transcript Study (HSTS) User's Guide and Technical Report on November 9, 2023. This report documents the procedures used to collect and summarize the data from the 2019 HSTS, a study that collected transcripts from a national sample of U.S. public and private school graduates who also took 2019 NAEP twelfth-grade mathematics and science assessments.
NCES Releases NAEP High School Transcript Study (HSTS) 2019 Restricted-Use Datasets (RUD) (November 30, 2023)
The National Center for Education Statistics releases the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) High School Transcript Study (HSTS) 2019 restricted-use datasets for analyzing HSTS 2019 results. The 2019 NAEP HSTS analyzes transcripts from a national sample of U.S. public and private school graduates who also took 2019 NAEP twelfth-grade assessments in mathematics and science. The study provides valuable information about coursetaking patterns disaggregated by demographic characteristics and the relationship between NAEP scale scores and various graduate characteristics.
From the IES Director: The Path Forward for NCADE, Part I (November 28, 2023)
In the first of a series of blogs, IES Director Mark Schneider outlines some of his thoughts on the building blocks that will lay the strongest foundation for NCADE.
New State-level Elementary and Secondary Education Data Tables Available (November 21, 2023)
Five State Education Practices tables were released with 2020 and 2021 data on school attendance laws, prekindergarten programs, standards and teacher qualifications, early childhood school readiness, and state-level accountability and reporting.
IES Announces 2023 Awards for Education Technology Products (November 15, 2023)
The Institute of Education Science (IES) has made awards in 2023 for the development and testing of commercially viable education technology products for education and special education.
New Data Released on Postsecondary Students at the National and State Levels (November 15, 2023)
Recently released data describe how students and their families paid for postsecondary education in the 2019–20 academic year. These data are nationally representative of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as state-representative samples of undergraduate students in some states. At the national level, the study includes student survey data and administrative data for about 80,800 undergraduate students and 19,700 graduate students. At the state level, the study includes administrative data for approximately 296,000 undergraduate students in 30 states. Data are part of the 2019–20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20).
School Pulse Panel U.S. Outlying Area Data: September 2023 Results from NCES (November 9, 2023)
The September 2023 School Pulse Panel (SPP) U.S. Outlying Area release provides information on summer 2023 program offerings and after-school program offerings during the 2023-24 school year, as reported by school staff in public schools in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Majority of K-12 Public Schools Offer Academically Focused Summer and After-School Programs (November 8, 2023)
The September 2023 School Pulse Panel (SPP) release provides information on summer 2023 program offerings and after-school program offerings during the 2023-24 school year as reported by school staff in U.S. public schools.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: NCSER Announces the 2024 Research Training Workshop: Comprehensive Program for Adaptive Interventions Training in Education Sciences (CATIE) (November 3, 2023)
The application deadline for the Comprehensive Program for Adaptive Interventions Training in Education (CATIE) workshop has been extended to November 15.