Save Education Data

Hi! I am concerned about the threat to national education data that has long been publicly available for families, researchers, and educators. This data has helped us identify where we were serving students well and where students, as a group, were falling into the cracks. In the special education research world, this data has been invaluable for supporting our students.

Given that so many federally run data sources are being threatened (e.g., NASA data related to climate change), I am concerned that the same may happen for data that supports educating all students. Does anyone have suggestions for how I can save this data and host it somewhere accessible for everyone and protect it from tampering (given that I know nothing about coding other than how to play Robot Turtles with my kids)?

Submitted February 17, 2017 at 08:10AM by samanthastevens http://ift.tt/2l1hLAU