# Presentation: 852874

*Sponsored by the** *
- National Center for Education Statistics
- U.S. Department of Education
*as a component of the*
- National Cooperative Education Statistics System

## Forum Purpose

- To improve the		- QUALITY		- COMPARABILITY		- UTILITYof elementary & secondary education data

## Forum Goals

- To develop and recommend strategies for	implementing national education standards 	useful to education decision making
- To improve the collection and	dissemination of education data
- To address emerging issues	affecting education data policy

## Representatives of state and 	local education agencies
Offices of the U.S. Department 	of Education
Other Federal Agencies
National Associations
Other Associations

- Representatives of state and 	local education agencies
- Offices of the U.S. Department 	of Education
- Other Federal Agencies
- National Associations
- Other Associations

- Forum Members and Associates

## Membership

- Alabama  Alaska  Arizona  Arkansas  California  Colorado  Connecticut  Delaware  District of Columbia  Florida  Georgia  Hawaii  Idaho  Illinois  Indiana  Iowa  Kansas  Kentucky  Louisiana  Maine  Maryland  				Massachusetts Michigan  					Minnesota Mississippi 					    Missouri Montana 					Nebraska       Nevada 					 New Hampshire New Jersey  					New Mexico   New York  				   North Carolina North Dakota  Ohio  Oklahoma  Oregon  Pennsylvania  Puerto Rico  Rhode Island  South Carolina  South Dakota  Tennessee  Texas  Utah  Vermont  Virginia  Washington  West Virginia  Wisconsin  Wyoming

**SEAs**
**and**
**LEAs**

## Membership

**U.S.**
**Department of **
**Education**

- Institute of Education Sciences
- Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Office of Civil Rights
- Office of Elementary and    Secondary Education
- Office of English Language Acquisition

- Office of Migrant Education
- Office of Non-Public Education
- Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services
- Assessment Division
- Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development

## Membership

-      Food & Consumer Services
- 						Bureau of
- 						Labor Statistics
- 	Department of Defense
- 	Education Activities

**Federal**
**Agencies**

## Membership

- American Association of School Administrators  American Education Finance Association  American Federation of Teachers  Association of School Business Officials International  Consortium for School Networking  Council for American Private Education  Council of Chief State School Officers  Council of the Great City Schools  Data Quality Campaign  National Association of Elementary School Principals  National Association of Secondary School Principals  National Association of State Boards of Education
- National Catholic Education Association  National Conference of State Legislatures  National Education Association  Northwest Evaluation Association  Schools Interoperability Framework Association  Southern Regional Education Board  State Educational Technology Directors Association  State Higher Education Executive Officers

**National**
**Associations**

## Associates

- Northern Mariana Islands
- 					  U.S. Virgin Islands
- Guam
- 					    Navajo Nation
- 	American Samoa

**Other**
**Associates**

## Education policymakers
School, district, and state administrators
Data collectors, reporters, and providers
Data collection instrument developers
Administrative records system developers
MIS & technology staff
Community members 
Parents

- School, district, and state administrators
- Data collectors, reporters, and providers
- Data collection instrument developers
- Administrative records system developers
- MIS & technology staff
- Community members
- Parents

- Forum Audiences

## Forum Standing Committees

-     National Education Statistics Agenda Committee
- 		... recommends the development of a comparable & effective
- 			 national elementary and secondary education data system
-    Policies, Programs and Implementation
- 		... addresses the policy implications of the Forum’s work
- 			on national education data issues
-     Technology
- 		... addresses technology-related strategies for improving data			collection and communication within states, between 			states, and with the U.S. Department of Education

## Current Task Force Topics

- PK-12 Data Modeling
- Metadata
- Attendance Codes
- Crisis Data Management
- Data Ethics
- Longitudinal Data Systems

## Free Forum Resources

*Managing an Identity Crisis: Forum Guide to Implementing New Federal    **	**Race and Ethnicity Categories*
*Forum Guide to Core Finance Data Elements *
*Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: **	**A Resource for Local Education Agencies*
*Forum Guide to Decision Support Systems:**	**A Resource for Educators*
*Forum Guide to the Privacy of Student Information:**	**A Resource for Schools*
*Forum Guide to Elementary/Secondary Virtual Education *
*Accounting for Every Student: **	**A Taxonomy for Standard Student Exit Codes*
*Forum Guide to Education Indicators*
*Forum Guide to Building a Culture of Quality Data: **	**A School and District Resource **	*

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## Forum Calendar

- The Forum holds general session meetings twice each year:
- E.g., July 28-Aug 1, 2008 (Bethesda, MD)
- E.g., February 16-18, 2009 (Seattle, WA)
- Task forces meet up to two additional times each year.

## Forum Contacts

- browse:	http://nces.ed.gov/forum
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- write:		Ghedam Bairu
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