The U.S. Department of Education has announced cuts of nearly half of its staff, numbering more than 1,300 workers, according to AP reporting. While official details on the cuts are not available, ...

Dozens of contracts with the Education Department’s research and statistics arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, were suddenly terminated Monday, jeopardizing efforts to provide the public and ...

For the employees who worked there, the weeks before the purge of the Education Department’s statistics and research arm were a blur of apprehension and confusion. Over the course of several weeks, ...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity charged to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education. Federal ...

The evolving landscape of data science education has prompted significant reforms in both data science and statistics curricula. Institutions are increasingly integrating computational methods, ...

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, four men were enrolled in postsecondary institutions for every six women in 2023, a historic low. Men are less likely to enroll in and ...

Statistics education and reasoning constitute a fundamental area of inquiry in contemporary educational research. Scholars are increasingly exploring methods to enhance students’ abilities to ...

The Trump administration wants the Education Department to collect more college admissions data, even as it slashes the very staff that ensures the statistics are credible and accurate. From early ...