Category Archives: Special Collection

IDEA and FERPA Confidentiality Provisions

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This 2014 guidance document from the U.S. Department of Education offers a “crosswalk” of IDEA Part B, IDEA Part C, and FERPA for a variety of confidentiality topics, including consent, inspection and review, retention of records, procedural safeguards, and dispute resolution. View IDEA and FERPA Confidentiality Provisions (PDF)

Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID)

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The Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID) provides technical assistance to state education agencies (SEAs) to increase the capacity to report high quality data required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B Sections 616 and 618. CIID supports the integration of IDEA data systems and processes with the Statewide Longitudinal […]

CEDS Connect

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Common Educational Data Standards (CEDS) Connect allows stakeholders across the P20W spectrum to address, define, and calculate metrics and indicators such as graduation rates, program enrollment, and academic outcomes. It allows you to define and analyze data used for reporting to the Federal government, and is an excellent tool for deconstructing policy or research questions. […]

CEDS Align Tool

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Align enables you to align (or map) your data dictionary (element names, definitions and option sets) to CEDS. The alignment creates a map that can be used with CEDS reports to see how your data dictionary aligns with the CEDS standard, or with others in the field. The reports can also help you identify where […]