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Making Progress toward a Statewide Education Data System

The California Cradle-to-Career Data System Act created a process for developing the state’s first statewide longitudinal data system. As the design and planning move forward, we will weigh in now and then with thoughts about how the state can make progress with the data system. In this post, Colleen Moore points to some of the critical questions we cannot answer until we have the data system in place and why researchers, policy analysts, policymakers and other stakeholders have long pushed for this critical tool.
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Bridging the Gaps through Cross-System Education Partnerships

This series brings together research findings, principles of practice and a workbook to help others understand the range and depth of efforts needed to build effective student transitions and enduring pathways across disparate education systems?
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California’s Education Systems: A Sum of the Moving Parts

This white paper provides context for the state’s major education reforms—and makes sense of them with regard to their potential effects on students across systems. 
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