The U.S. Department of Education has announced cuts of nearly half of its staff, numbering more than 1,300 workers, according to AP reporting. While official details on the cuts are not available, ...

Dozens of contracts with the Education Department’s research and statistics arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, were suddenly terminated Monday, jeopardizing efforts to provide the public and ...

For the employees who worked there, the weeks before the purge of the Education Department’s statistics and research arm were a blur of apprehension and confusion. Over the course of several weeks, ...

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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity charged to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education. Federal ...