Education Data Done Right: Volume III
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Education Data Done Right: Volume III

Building Resilience & Empowering Data Users

About the Book

This is the final installment of our Education Data Done Right series.

We’re closing this adventure out with a tight focus on the concrete efforts that enable resilience in your teams, robustness in your systems, durability in your practices, and data centrism in your organization. We try to be very pragmatic here, so we’re quite direct in a few places as we “cut to the chase,” so to speak. After all, your time is valuable.

We also take this opportunity to follow through on some common content requests that we hear from our readers–namely, detailing the important public aggregate education data available. We hope this helps our readers, working in agencies and outside of them, learn more about how local data are represented and used in the public realm. Let’s go!

About the Authors

Wendy Geller
Wendy Geller

Today, I'm a team member at AEM Corporation in their Civilian and Commercial Services crew, where I specialize in modernization and innovation. At AEM, we help leaders, thinkers, and professionals tackle their toughest data and technical challenges. 

Before this, I was the first Director of the Vermont Agency of Education's Data Management & Analysis Division, where I served alongside my Work Family of Data Scientists as a centralized resource to the organization. My crew led the modernization of collection, stewardship, and use of the institution's critical data assets. We pioneered the Agency's data governance program and the business side of the DataOps continuum. 

My Ph.D. (2011) is in sociology from the National University of Ireland Maynooth (www.nuim.ie) where I was a doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (www.nuim.ie/nirsa). My dissertation findings highlighted shifting demographics in education arenas and labor markets internationally, specific education orientations occurring across cultures, and presented thoughts on the social and spatial forces surrounding rural community viability. 

Since leaving academia, I've dedicated myself to creating the cultural, infrastructural, and operational conditions required for practicing good data science in the public sector. 

Specialties: data science, data management, data governance, DataOps, data privacy, administrative data, mixed methods, applied research, program evaluation, continuous improvement, research methods, social policy, management

Dorothyjean Cratty
Dorothyjean Cratty

I am an independent researcher, helping states, districts, and education advocacy groups conduct data analyses with a focus on equity.

I have been a US ED Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) program officer, Duke University researcher working with North Carolina agencies, principal investigator for Rhode Island and District of Columbia research projects, and Hawai’i state data summit plenary speaker.

My journal publications include the Economics of Education Review. Some of my work for advocacy groups can be found online in these EdTrust 50-state equity analyses for preschool, counselors, and advanced course opportunities.

You can contact me at: CrattyEDDR@gmail.com.

Jared Knowles
Jared Knowles

Hi. I'm Jared Knowles, founder and President of Civilytics Consulting. You can learn more about Civilytics Consulting’s work, our clients, and our history on our homepage. You can also follow Civilytics on Twitter or subscribe to our monthly newsletter, the Civic Pulse.

I'm a statistical programmer and social scientist with experience in R programming, analyzing administrative records, machine learning, and data visualization. I've also taught R programming and statistical computing to a wide array of audiences.

I formerly served as a research analyst with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. I completed a PhD in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.

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Table of Contents

    • What Folks are Saying About the EDDR Series
    • Acknowledgements
      • The Editors
      • Reviewers
      • Production Team
    • Introduction
      • Why You Should Keep Reading This Book
      • What’s in Volume III, You Ask?
    • Need a Fighting Chance? DataOps Can Help
      • Introduction
      • October 2018–DMAD Created
      • The Work Shark
      • New Paradigm
      • Started with Kanban, Graduated to Azure DevOps
      • Measure the Work, Iterate Strategically
      • March 2020
      • Wikis and Roadmaps and Dashboards, Oh My!
      • My Mom: My Original Lean Mentor
    • Exploring Greater Potential in Combining Public Data
      • Who Uses Aggregate Data and Why
      • Overview of Major Public Aggregate Data Sources
      • Accessing the Data and Metadata
      • The Big Interrelated Three: CRDC, CCD, and EDFacts
      • Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)
      • Common Core of Data (CCD)
      • EDFacts Data
      • Aligned Tests, College and Career Measures, and P-K
      • Conclusion of Inventory and Introduction to Use
      • Differences Across the Collections Can Be Useful
      • Differences Across the Years Can Be Useful
      • Differences Across School Types Are Important
    • Meeting the Challenges of Student Household Income Data
      • Important Distinctions Between Available Income Data
      • Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL) Data as the Long-Term Gold Standard
      • Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Means No More Free Lunch Data
      • NAEP etc. Household Income May Not Be Comparable Across States and Years
      • Direct Certification Programs Have Variation That CEP Lacks
      • School Neighborhood Income-Poverty Ratios Capture Full Income Distributions
      • Student Longitudinal Effects of Household-Income Differences Beyond FRL
      • Comparing FRL, Parent Education, and Census Household-Income Estimates
      • Student Household-Income Effects on School Opportunities and Outcomes
      • Conclusions
    • Being Water: Why the “People Work” Won’t Compress and That Can Be OK
      • DataOps Starts with Culture and People
      • DMAD: 2018
      • Using Physics
      • Do the Work
      • Working on the Work
      • “Let’s Try It”: Creating a Learning Environment
      • Reflections: Making a Path Towards Sustainability
    • Conclusions

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