DQC’s Year in Review

As 2024 draws to a close, we at DQC want to take a moment to reflect on what we learned and shared with the field over the past year. We look forward to continued collaboration and impact in 2025 as we advocate to change the role of data to ensure that data works for everyone navigating their education and workforce journeys.

In case you missed anything, here’s a roundup of our resources from 2024:

Prioritizing Data to Support Students through Education and into Jobs
Our transition memo for the incoming administration and Congress details various opportunities to make long-term data investments and highlights areas where data work can be prioritized on day one.

Education and Workforce Data Legislation Review: What Happened in 2024?
This resource unpacks how legislators made progress toward enhancing access to data for education and workforce decisionmaking in 2024.

Early Childhood Administrators Value Data for Decisionmaking
Our poll of early childhood administrators found that they value data for decisionmaking, want better access to more data, and think that data collection and reporting requirements tend to be inefficient—if not overwhelming.

People Want Information to Improve Their Career Trajectories and Access New Opportunities
Our poll of adult learners looking to enhance their careers found that they are looking for—but having difficulty finding—the information they need to reach their goals.

Transform State Early Childhood Data to Meet the Needs of Children, Families, and Those Who Support Them
This resource highlights how states must transform their early childhood data ecosystems to help improve early childhood experiences and outcomes—and lay the foundation to connect robust early childhood data with statewide longitudinal data systems.

Use Case: Connect School and District Leaders to the Information They Need to Ensure That Their Students Thrive
This use case discusses the importance of providing school and district leaders with quality data that empowers them to provide individualized support to students and families.

Using Data to Advance Education Equity
This resource lays the foundation for why data matters in achieving equity goals and why policymakers should support this work.

Federal Leaders Can Clear the Way for State Access to Federal Student Aid Data
This resource explores how federal leaders must work to provide clear guidance to states and remove barriers to sharing federal student aid data.

Federal Leaders Can Enable State Access to Military Enlistment Data
This resource unpacks how state partnerships with the DoD could provide states with enlistment data that can in turn provide districts, schools, and students with insights to better understand the military as a viable postsecondary pathway.

On-Track Indicators: A Powerful Data-Based Tool for Action
This resource explores how leaders can leverage on-track indicators to proactively support students and help them meet their goals.