Nation's Report Card

The 2008 Long-Term Trend Report Card was released on April 28, 2009. The Nation's Report Card site you can access reports for economics, U.S. History, reading and other curricular areas, watch webcasts and access data tools.

NAEP Presentations at the 2009 AERA/NCME Meetings April 12–17, San Diego, California

NCES has a listing of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) related professional development training sessions that will be offered at the AERA conference in San Diego.

State Education Reforms website adds ELL policies

The recent NCES State Education Reforms (SER) website modifications include the addition of a a new table on state policies regarding the teaching of English Language Learners in the "staff qualifications and development" area. To locate these tables on the website, please look for the "Updated!" and "New!" tags next to the table titles. (IES Newsflash Subscription Service [IESWebmaster@ed.gov])

Beta Data Analysis System from NCES

The DAS Online 2.0 Beta includes many new features and functions including estimating covariance analyses--both Weighted Least Squares and Logistic regressions. A Winsor filter has been added to filter out cases with extreme values. (NCES Newsflash Service)

You can also access several completed tables focusing on postsecondary education data