Education Data Done Right

Welcome!

Across the country hundreds of data scientists and analysts are working for thousands of education agencies helping schools, school leaders, and education systems as a whole function more effectively. The work they do is critical to everything from managing enrollments and scheduling classes, to strategic planning, evaluating programs, and making the laws that shape our public education infrastructure at large.

This book series is for them. For their work.

Lots of pundits and researchers have ideas about how education data work should be done and who should do it, and many of their ideas are disseminated widely. But there are far fewer places for education agency analysts themselves to share their ideas, to describe their challenges, or to cover their efforts to do good science in the everyday.

We wanted to bring the voices and the work of these folks to the forefront, so others among them could learn from the hard-fought advances they’ve made which benefit us all.

This book series is by folks who’ve been agency analysts, for folks who are agency analysts.

You can see this collective direct experience of our authors and reviewers on those pages and read more about our best practice sharing through our guest Brookings blog posts on the About page. The expertise shared in each volume is captured on the Books page. Though, for the best reads on what this series is all about, scroll down to see what our target audience is saying.

And as we’ve rolled out these volumes, we’ve also had tremendous response from other education data analysts in the field. Among this broader audience are those working in state and local researcher-practitioner partnerships, advocacy groups, and training programs. (See our recent blog post about our participation in Stanford’s Masters in Education Data Science seminar.)