The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category Features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond […]
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
Workforce data is essential to understanding what happens when our students leave high school and college, but it can also be one of the trickiest pieces of the SLDS puzzle. Join this session with Brennan McMahon Parton (DQC) and Angela Perry (DQC) to learn about what we mean when we say “workforce data,” how it […]
Audience: PIE Network Leaders Data is one tool to help students along their education and workforce journeys. State leaders have a responsibility to invest in robust statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) that provide meaningful information that helps students decide what comes next, and policymakers ensure that resources are being used to improve education. That doesn’t […]
Audience: PIE Network Leaders Your state has a longitudinal data system, but how good is it? Does it connect all of the data it needs to improve college and career outcomes? Can you, students, families, policymakers, and researchers access the data you need to inform decisions? Join this session with Jonathan Furr (Strada) and Brennan […]
Audience: PIE Network Leaders State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDSs) are an integral part of conversations about state career-connected learning policy. Join this discussion with Anne Wicks (George W. Bush Institute) and Brennan McMahon Parton (Data Quality Campaign) to discuss why SLDSs are so important to meaningfully connect workforce, higher education, K-12, and early childhood outcome data and to learn […]
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Audience: PIE Network leaders Education advocates across the country are uplifting bright spots and moving to continue or deepen effective pandemic-era interventions as the sector continues to grapple with academic recovery. What’s moving the needle for students, and what additional data and supports for students might advocates consider in the face of a fiscal cliff? […]
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of 2023 […]
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