Update. "‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of #Education Dept.’s #Data Warehouse"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/breathtakingly-irresponsible-former-workers-decry-decimation-of-education-dept-s-data-warehouse

"More than 160 contracts measuring educational progress across the nation’s schools and colleges were suddenly halted. Probationary workers were fired, employees were blocked from accessing information on their computers, and a national center that dates to the time of Abraham Lincoln was effectively decommissioned overnight. Employees worked late into the evenings downloading data that had taken decades to compile, according to interviews with more than a dozen people fired from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), an independent and nonpartisan agency within the U.S. Department of Education [#DOE], and its National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…IES, which had 173 employees before the cuts, was left with just over a dozen after Elon #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept through the Education Department early last month. The crippling of the office was so swift and haphazard that it left serious doubts about how much of the educational data that has informed higher-education policy and practice will continue to be available."

#DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "#APDU [Association of Public Data Users] Statement on #Education Research and #Data"
https://apdu.org/?p=5812775

"On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, over 1,000 staff from the Department of Education [#DOE] were laid off. This includes almost all staff from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), which housed the National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…NCES is mandated by law to report on the condition of education annually, collect and disseminate key education data, and support state and local education agencies…The [layoffs] make it unclear how NCES will meet its legal obligations under the Education Sciences Reform Act, Every Student Succeeds Act, the Information Quality Act, and other federal laws…Congress and policymakers must act to ensure NCES has the resources to meet its statutory obligations. Stakeholders—including researchers, educators, and state leaders—must demand transparency on how education data will be maintained."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

@ChadBown

No #JOLTS data on teachers, specifically. The "State and local government education" category reported in JOLTS is probably just under half K-12 teachers, if the CPS is any guide.

But the #NCES does have new data out today on teacher shortages consistent with your observations. Here's the write-up at the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/12/06/teacher-supply-shortage-free-lunch/

And a colleague and I also have a new @epi report out today on teacher shortages. https://www.epi.org/publication/shortage-of-teachers/

#teachers #shortage #education

#Education Researchers & #Academics: Please do your jobs. National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES) is your go-to source for demographic info about #homeschoolers. #SecularHomeschoolers know - Christian families are NOT the majority in the homeschool community. Stop pushing that false narrative.

The real problem with this article, however, is that non-homeschooling researchers have now formally defined #unschooling for our educational community. /2