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CEP Bill Moves Through House
In early September 2017, when the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP) released its final report, The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) committed to quickly take action on the recommendations. Speaker Ryan and Senator Murray recently introduced legislation (H.R. 4174 and S. 2046) to implement some of the commission?s bipartisan and unanimous recommendations.
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) has launched its Evidence-Based Policymaking Initiative to continue the work of CEP, pursuing implementation of the CEP recommendations designed to make evidence-based policymaking routine in government. Specifically, BPC?s initiative is providing advice and expertise on implementation options and strategies, and extending the work of CEP as Congress and the Executive Branch pursue more evidence-based policies.
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State Data Sharing to Support Development Policymaking
State economic and workforce development program evaluators and policy analysts face many challenges in accessing the administrative data they need to do their jobs. However, states are learning to overcome these challenges through the State Data Sharing Initiative (SDS). This webinar, hosted by the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness and the National Governors Association, highlighted the efforts of multi-agency, SDS Initiative teams from Iowa, Minnesota, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Utah to 1) increase transparency about the legal and regulatory barriers to sharing administrative data and 2) guide potential policy changes that would allow greater access to administrative data without compromising its privacy and confidentiality. The SDS Initiative state leaders shared their experiences with building effective data governance structures, engaging stakeholders and building multi-agency coalitions, and navigating the legislative process.
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Congressional Briefing on Census’ Undercount of Children
In 2010, one out of every ten American children under the age of 5 was overlooked, missed, uncounted in the decennial Census. That was the sobering finding offered by experts from both inside and outside of government at an October 30, 2017 hearing on Capitol Hill entitled, ?Making Sure Kids Count in the Big Count: Census 2020,? sponsored by the Population Association of America. Check out the member area of the APDU website to find a webinar from November 2016 on this topic.
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How Higher Ed Data Reporting Is Burdensome & Inadequate
While there have been great strides to increase transparency, our higher education data system still falls short. Due to a restriction imposed by Congress in 2008 that prohibits the creation of a federal student-level data system, the data collection process is inadequate at both the front and back ends: institutions are both burdened by a complex data submission process and students and families receive incomplete information as consumers.
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Spotting the Patterns: 2017 Trends in Design Thinking
Creative leaders and innovators are thinking about design thinking in more mature ways. Moving away from a sole emphasis on language and learning, they are increasingly focusing on questions of application, ownership, and impact.
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What?s Missing From the College Scorecard?
Recently, the higher education world was buzzing with news of the updates to the federal government?s College Scorecard. Perhaps with good reason: The College Scorecard takes a critical step toward providing education consumers with the sort of data they need to make better-informed decisions about their educational investments. But as informative as the Scorecard may be, it still falls short of offering the sort of practical, program-level information that aspiring college students need to compare the institutions and fields of study in which they are considering investing.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New SBA Advocacy Interactive Map
How well do you know your federal region? The Office of Advocacy has created an interactive map of the U.S. that shows you the 10 regions plus three small business facts that distinguish each one. The 3 reasons also appear on individual one-pagers for each region.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing the Rise and Fall of ISIS
The New York Times has created a data visualization illustrating how the size of territory controlled by ISIS has grown and shrunk since 2014. In 2014, ISIS controlled several important cities in Iraq and Syria, seizing control of over 50 cities and towns in June 2014, and growing to control nearly every province in Syria and northern and central Iraq by 2017. Throughout 2017, ISIS suffered heavy losses and though not defeated, now only controls a small handful of areas.
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Notable Data Publications
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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we?ll include it here.
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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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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