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A special adviser\u2019s report recommends how the Institute of Education Sciences should change.<\/p>\n
Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Education Department has released recommendations on \u201creimagining\u201d the Institute of Education Sciences, the central federal education data collection and research funding agency, which the Trump administration gutted last year. <\/p>\n
Among other things, the 93-page report, released Friday, says IES \u201cshould focus on the most urgent education challenges, informed by state and [school] district leaders,\u201d instead of \u201cspreading resources across many disconnected projects.\u201d It also says that the National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of IES, \u201cshould develop a streamlined and coordinated data strategy while preserving and strengthening its vital core functions\u201d rather than \u201cfunding multiple data collections and longitudinal surveys that may be redundant or outdated.\u201d <\/p>\n
In February 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency and ED announced the slashing of more than $1 billion in multiyear contracts administered by IES. Mass layoffs at the agency followed, along with litigation over the cancellation of studies and contracts. President Trump asked Congress to cut IES\u2019s budget by about 84\u00a0percent, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science\u2019s appropriations tracker. <\/p>\n
In May, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced she was temporarily appointing Amber Northern, senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute\u2014a conservative-leaning, education-focused think tank\u2014as a special adviser to \u201cre-envision\u201d IES. In the fall, ED requested public comments about how to \u201cmodernize\u201d the agency. Then Congress voted to keep its funding relatively level at $790\u00a0million. <\/p>\n
On Friday, McMahon announced she had received Northern\u2019s report, which was coauthored by special assistant Adam Opp. In a news release, Northern said, \u201cIES has set the standard for high-quality education research these last 25 years, but now is the time to look at its work with fresh eyes and renewed focus, so that we can drive real progress for student outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A special adviser\u2019s report recommends how the Institute of Education Sciences should change. Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images The Education Department has released recommendations on \u201creimagining\u201d the Institute of Education Sciences, the central federal education data collection and research funding agency, which the Trump administration gutted last year. Among other things, the 93-page report, released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[23462,5355,23461,2308],"class_list":{"0":"post-45615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-ies","9":"tag-recommendations","10":"tag-reimagine","11":"tag-releases"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}