Meet James Woodworth, NCES Commissioner

摘要

What about this position appealed to you? I believe making good policy decisions requires access to high-quality data. As such, I have been a user of NCES data for years. I saw the opportunity to take a leadership role at NCES as a way to ensure and improve the quality of data for the entire education research realm. It is my hope that during my time at NCES, I will be able to help expand the types and quality of the data made available to parents, teachers, students, researchers, and policymakers. Describe the top 2-3 priorities you have for the National Center for Education Statistics. One of my primary goals while at NCES is to develop an improved measure of socio-economic status (SES). For decades, education researchers have used eligibility for free and reduced lunches under the US Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program (NSLP) as a proxy for poverty.