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Common Core Data

The Common Core of Data (CCD) is an annual collection of public elementary and secondary education data administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and its collection agent, the U.S. Census Bureau. The surveys of the CCD system include data, such as enrollment, grades levels, minority population, and poverty level, from all public schools and local education agencies. AIR provides professional and technical services for all aspects of data file preparation, file review, data analysis, preparation of data file documentation, and writing of substantive reports.

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Recent Reports

• Learning from the Past: Drawing on California’s CLAS Experience to Inform Assessment of the Common Core

  The Common Core State Standards represent an exciting step forward for California and for the nation as a whole in supporting strong instruction that can better prepare students for college and career success. As educators embrace the challenges associated with assessment of the Common Core, it is instructive to learn from the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) experience in the early 1990s—both to build on its successes and to avoid the mistakes that led to its demise.

• Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2008–09 (Fiscal Year 2009)

  Part of the Common Core of Data (CCD), this report presents state-level data on revenues by source and expenditures by function for public elementary and secondary education for the 2008-09 school year.

• Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008–09

  This report uses data collected as part of the Common Core of Data (CCD) and presents findings associated with public high school graduation and event dropout counts for school year 2008–09.

Recent Projects

• ELL Center's Technical Assistance Related to the Common Core State Standards

  In the past year, staff from the Center for English Language Learners have been involved in technical assistance work related to the Common Core.

• ELL Policy Analysis and Related Work

  The policy work of the Center for English Language Learners currently focuses on analysis of state and federal policies and assistance to federal and state policymakers on issues relevant to ELLs.

• Common Core of Data

  The Common Core of Data (CCD) is an annual collection of public elementary and secondary education data administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The Federal Statistics Program’s CCD team provides professional and technical services for all aspects of data file preparation, file review, data analysis, preparation of data file documentation, and writing of substantive reports.