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January 2011


Grants, Training & Conferences

NCES Conducts Early Childhood Studies Seminar at Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting

The National Center for Education Statistics will be conducting a free 1-day training seminar on its early childhood studies at the 2011 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development on March 30, 2011, in Montreal, Canada. The seminar provides information on three NCES large-scale data collections:

The seminar will present overviews of the study designs and technical issues associated with using and analyzing the data, highlights about the data collected from 1991 through 2007 pertaining to children from birth through 8th grade, information on how the surveys complement each other, and computer demonstrations of software that assist users in preparing data for analyses.

For more information or to register, please send an e-mail to ecls@air.org.

2011 Management Information Systems Conference to be Held February 23–25

The three-day Management Information Systems (MIS) Conference—co-sponsored by the Texas Education Agency and NCES—features best practices, innovative ideas, current issues, and practical advice for K–12 education data managers.

The conference will be held at the Hilton Austin Hotel, 500 East 4th Street, Austin, TX. There is no conference registration fee and online pre-registration closes on January 31. On-site registration is also available.

Complete information about the conference and registration is available at http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=714&cid=2.