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Now Available: The 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book
The Annie E. Casey Foundation?s annual report on child well-being ? the 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book ? focuses on the state of America?s children in the midst of the country’s economic recovery. While data show improvements in child health and education, more families are struggling to make ends meet, and a growing number of kids live in high-poverty neighborhoods. In addition to ranking states in several areas of child well-being, the Data Book also examines the influence of parents? education, health and other life circumstances on their children.
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A Case for Congress to Allow Data Mining in Schools
Students in the United States perform worse in mathematics and just average in science and reading compared to much of the developed world, even though the United States spends more per student than all but four other countries. There is an obvious need to improve how the United States approaches education, but policymakers? efforts to tap data from the classroom to improve educational outcomes have thus far been tepid at best.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New Top Markets Series Provides Data to Help Exporters
The Department of Commerce released a new product line: ITA?s Top Markets Series. The Top Markets Series is a collection of 19 sector-specific reports that are designed to help U.S. exporters compare markets across borders, using market intelligence and data to inform decision-making.
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Introducing ContentMine
ContentMine aims to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature. They believe that ?The Right to Read is the Right to Mine?: anyone who has lawful access to read the literature with their eyes should be able to do so with a machine.
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Visualization of the Week
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What $100 Is Worth in Cities Across the U.S.
What can you buy with $100? That depends on where you are. Using recently published data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, economists at the Tax Foundation put together two maps showing just how much $100 is worth in each state and in different metros.
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Notable Data Publications
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database (August 17, 2015)
Economic Research Service, USDA
- Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (September 15, 2015)
Energy Information Administration
- Quarterly Electricity Imports and Exports Report (August 17, 2015)
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