Welcome to the National Forum on Education Statistics. The Forum is sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education and is committed to improving the quality, comparability, and usefulness of elementary and secondary education data, while remaining sensitive to data burden concerns. Forum members include representatives from state education agencies, local education agencies, the federal government, and other organizations with an interest in education data. Our purpose is to plan, recommend, and implement strategies for building an education data system that will support local, state, and national efforts to improve public and private education throughout the United States.
Publications of the National Forum on Education Statistics do not undergo the formal review required for products of the National Center for Education Statistics. The information and opinions published here are the product of the National Forum on Education Statistics and do not necessarily represent the policy or views of the U.S. Department of Education or the National Center for Education Statistics.
Highlights
The Race/Ethnicity Task Force presents Managing an Identity Crisis: Forum Guide to Implementing New Federal Race and Ethnicity Categories for public review. Comments are due by Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
New! Forum Curriculum OnlineSIFA University is now offering a free online course based on the Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data. Visit SIFA University to take Improving Education Data Part I – Creating a Culture of Quality Data.
New! Summer 2008 ForumThe Summer 2008 Forum Meeting will be held in Bethesda, Maryland on July 28-30, 2008, followed by the NCES Summer Data Conference (July 30-August 1). The deadline for preregistration is Friday, July 11; the hotel block is reserved until Thursday, July 3, 2008; and the deadline to submit a proposal for the data conference is Friday, May 16, 2008.
Winter 2008 Forum Meeting NotesThe Winter 2008 Forum Meeting was held in San Francisco, California on February 25-26, 2008. It was followed by the 21st Annual NCES MIS Conference on February 27-29, 2008.
FY 2008 Task Orders AwardedNCES awarded FY 2008 Task Orders to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the Idaho Department of Education, and the Iowa Department of Education.
Forum Welcomes New Associate MembersThe Northeast & Islands Regional Educational Laboratory (NEIREL) and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have joined the Forum as associate members.
Recent Publications
October 15, 2007:
Handbooks Online - Version 5.0Handbooks Online - Version 5.0 is a searchable web tool that provides access to the NCES Data Handbooks for elementary, secondary, and early childhood education.
July 17, 2007:
Forum Guide to Core Finance Data ElementsThis document provides an overview of key finance data terms.
July 11, 2007:
Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education AgenciesThis curriculum supports efforts to improve the quality of education data by serving as training materials for K-12 school and district staff.
