The Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Local Education Agencies builds on the Forum Guide to Building a Culture of Data Quality: A School & District Resource, published by the National Center for Education Statistics in November 2004. The Data Quality Curriculum Task Force of the National Forum on Education Statistics acknowledges its debt to that publication for the organizational structure of this curriculum. The Task Force also thanks the members of the Forum who contributed suggestions and resource materials that strengthened the curriculum’s lessons.
The Data Quality Curriculum Task Force thanks the following people and organizations for arranging pilot tests for the lesson plans and materials, which provided valuable suggestions for improving the curriculum:
In addition, the Task Force thanks Sonya Edwards (California Department of Education), Lee Hoffman, Gail Mulligan, and Jeffrey Owings (National Center for Education Statistics), and Erin Perry (Kansas State Department of Education) for reviews that greatly improved the consistency of this document; LeRoy Rooker and Ellen Campbell of the U.S. Department of Education’s Family Policy Compliance Office for valuable technical information and corrections regarding the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act; Barbara S. Lynch and Joyce Stern (Synergy Enterprises, Inc.) for overall editing; and Virginia Robles-Villalba (Synergy Enterprises, Inc.) for formatting and designing this publication.
Finally, the Data Quality Curriculum Task Force thanks Victoria Bernhardt (Education for the Future) and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) for giving the Task Force permission to reprint or adapt their copyrighted materials.