There is demand among policy-makers for the use of state education longitudinal data systems, yet laws and policies regulating data disclosure limit access to such data, and security concerns and risks remain high. Well-developed synthetic datasets that statistically mimic the relations among the variables in the data from which they were derived,…

This supplemental report provides technical documentation for the full report (published separately) concerning the 63% of AISD's Class of 2013 graduates who enrolled in a postsecondary institution the year after high school, and 74% of Class of 2012 graduates persisted in college for a second year. [For the full report, see ED626498.]

This paper reports findings of a qualitative study exploring the changes in secondary teachers' learning orientation through the use of literacy coaching. The study took place within a large suburban district in the Chicagoland area and explores the question from the perspective of participants sampled across three departments and two campuses in…