- Overview
- Agenda At-a-Glance
- Agenda with Session Descriptions
- Common Core of Data (CCD) Fiscal Coordinators' Training
- New Common Core of Data (CCD) Nonfiscal Coordinators' Training
- Opening Plenary Session
- EDFacts and Common Core of Data (CCD) Nonfiscal Coordinators' Training
- Concurrent Session I
- Concurrent Session II
- Concurrent Session III
- Concurrent Session IV
- Concurrent Session V
- Concurrent Session VI
- Concurrent Session VII
- Concurrent Session VIII
- Concurrent Session IX
- Concurrent Session X
- Concurrent Session XI
- Concurrent Session XII
- Keynote Speaker Biography
- Demonstration Descriptions
- Topic Index
- Return to Conference Info
Contact
Opening Plenary Session
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Welcome and Introductions
Ross Santy, Associate Commissioner, Administrative Data DivisionNational Center for Education Statistics
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
Keynote Speech
Peggy G. Carr, Ph.D., Acting Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
For years the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has been helping the country to understand data on our nation’s schools. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) trend results indicate that K–12 education continues to improve, particularly at elementary and middle school ages. Even more encouraging is the fact that traditionally lower performing subgroups, such as Black and Hispanic students, are making some of the largest gains. Three years of data on the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate also continues to show improvement, with more than 80 percent of public school students in the nation graduating within four years of their first time in ninth grade. Indicators like these are helpful in letting policymakers and the public know whether or not reforms and initiatives are having the desired effect, but on their own they don’t help us to understand everything that’s happening in and around our classrooms and our schools. Guiding the changes and improvements needed within schools and classrooms takes a different kind of data, delivered at or near real time to the people who can make a difference for individual students. Information systems, increasingly designed and built with common standards in mind, are providing teachers, building administrators, and district leaders with a wealth of actionable information on their students. In addition to the statistics generated through assessments and data collections, NCES continues to provide technical assistance and resources that help states and districts improve both their information management capabilities and their instructional delivery.
The 2015 NCES STATS-DC Data Conference is focused on these Strong Uses for Strong Data. To open the conference, Dr. Carr’s plenary session will look at ways NCES’ data and programs are being used at national, state, district, and school levels to improve both data and educational outcomes.
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Stronger Education Through Stronger Data
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Announcements
Ross Santy, Associate Commissioner, Administrative Data DivisionNational Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences
U.S. Department of Education