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With funding from the Spencer Foundation, the North Carolina Education Research Data Center was established in 2000-01 as a unique portal to an immense store of data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and other agencies, such as the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Located in the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University , the Data Center provides researchers and the broader policy community with ready access to the data that they need for policy-oriented research. Research topics have included the minority achievement gap, the shortage of qualified teachers, school accountability and choice, the academic performance of at-risk children, and problem behavior in schools.
Without the Data Center , many of these studies could not be undertaken. The Data Center provides researchers across social science disciplines with access to large databases, helps them learn from and build on each others' work, connects them with state and local policy makers, and provides a rich intellectual environment for the training of a new generation of education researchers for the state and region.
The Center conducts its activities in strict compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
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Principal Investigator: Kenneth Dodge
Center Director:
Clara G. Muschkin
Assoc. Director:
Kara Bonneau
Funding:
$450,000, Spencer Foundation
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