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True to our non-profit nature, we believe in sharing our knowledge. We’re motivated by something greater than the bottom-line. We believe in supporting both the health of the education system in the United States and the well-being of each and every student. So we make a point to share what we learn with others who are positioned to make a difference, too.
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Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19-Related Interventions: Key Considerations and Available Approaches
This resource provides guidance for education agencies that are considering how and when to evaluate programs designed to address the impacts of COVID-19 on student outcomes. We present some key questions to consider, share common data requirements, and outline different options for designing the analytic approach.
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Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19-Related Interventions: Key Considerations and Available Approaches
Using Interim Assessments to Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on Student Learning
This resource is meant to support education agencies as they consider additional data they can use to identify where students are academically, including EA’s lessons learned in working with these data. We include guiding questions and data requirements that agencies can use to start conversations with their internal stakeholders.
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Using Interim Assessments to Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on Student Learning
COVID-19 Impacts on Learning and Well-Being
This infographic highlights EA's research into changes in learning patterns experienced by students in grades 3–8 in California and South Carolina. Using results from winter 2020–21 interim assessments, EA provides an up-to-date picture of the learning lag students have experienced during the pandemic. EA also highlights findings from a well-being student survey collected during the 2020–21 school year.
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COVID-19 Impacts on Learning and Well-Being
COVID-19 Impacts on Student Learning: Evidence from Interim Assessments in California
We used data from interim assessments to examine how the rate of student learning from fall 2019 through winter 2020–21 differed from that of student learning before COVID-19 for approximately 100,000 students in grades 4-8 across 19 local education agencies in California. Results showed that students experienced approximately 2.5 months of learning lag on average in math and ELA, with more substantial learning lag for students who are economically disadvantaged, English Learners, and Latinx.
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COVID-19 Impacts on Student Learning: Evidence from Interim Assessments in California
Student Well-Being and Learning Conditions During the Pandemic: Evidence from the CORE Districts
We drew on data from the CORE Districts' Student Well-Being and Learning Conditions Survey, given to 32,000 students in Grades 4–12 from three districts at the beginning of the 2020–21 school year and to 15,000 students again a few months later. We examined patterns in responses by student characteristics, the connection between well-being and academic performance, and changes in students' responses from fall to winter.
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Student Well-Being and Learning Conditions During the Pandemic: Evidence from the CORE Districts
Learning Change Models: Fall-to-fall and Fall-to-winter Results from South Carolina and California
In this document, we provide technical details on our learning change models, which estimate how much faster or slower students have grown during COVID-19. We also summarizes results from both fall-to-fall and fall-to-winter learning change models in South Carolina and California.
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Learning Change Models: Fall-to-fall and Fall-to-winter Results from South Carolina and California
Missing Data Guide & Webinar
EA developed this guide and accompanying webinar to support our partners in investigating the impacts of missing data due to COVID-19-related school closures and making adjustments in order to account for data limitations.
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Missing Data Guide & Webinar
Day in the Life: Q&A with Implementation Delivery Lead Christian Faulkner
Get to know Implementation Delivery Lead Christian Faulkner in the latest installment of our "Day in the Life" blog series. In this blog, Christian describes what interested him in working at EA, why connecting technology to student outcomes is so rewarding, and how he anticipates the ed tech field will continue to focus on supporting the school-to-workforce transition in the coming years.
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Day in the Life: Q&A with Implementation Delivery Lead Christian Faulkner
Building Shared Data Infrastructure for School-Based Nonprofits
When we talk with school-based nonprofit partners, we hear a consistent concern: the data they need to support students, learn across sites, and demonstrate impact often arrives too late, in too many formats, and with too much local interpretation required. City Year, a national education nonprofit whose AmeriCorps members serve as student success coaches in schools across 29 U.S. cities, describes this as a shared infrastructure problem rather than a single-organization challenge. In this blog, Vice President of Strategic Philanthropy and Innovation Dan Jarratt describes this shared infrastructure problem, uses City Year's work as a case study in strengthening data infrastructure, and highlights how Education Analytics (EA) is committed to building and stewarding that infrastructure.
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Building Shared Data Infrastructure for School-Based Nonprofits
EA Stack Series Part IV: Giving District Data a Platform with Podium with Katie O'Brien
April 17, 2026
In the latest episode of the DatabasED podcast, co-hosts Molly Stewart (Senior Project Manager) and Rosh Dhanawade (VP of Product) sit down with Katie O'Brien (Senior Product Manager) at Education Analytics to explore Podium, EA's data visualization platform built for education leaders.
Katie shares how Podium helps districts, schools, and state agencies answer the big questions they face every day, from tracking chronic absenteeism to understanding student behavior and enrollment trends. The conversation dives into how Podium's core dashboard suite provides quick, reliable insights while also giving districts the flexibility to build custom dashboards tailored to their unique initiatives.
The episode also unpacks the technical side of building a scalable business intelligence platform in education. Katie discusses how EA leverages tools like Apache Superset (via Preset), Ed-Fi data standards, and the Stadium data warehouse to deliver secure, multi-tenant data access across districts and states. She also highlights the challenges of adapting traditional BI tools for education use cases, including differences in school calendars, data privacy requirements, and complex user structures.
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EA Stack Series Part IV: Giving District Data a Platform with Podium with Katie O'Brien
Economists of Scale: Using Interoperability Technologies for Efficient Research with Large Datasets with Michael Christian and Sara Hu
January 28, 2026
In the latest episode of the DatabasED podcast, co-hosts Molly Stewart (Senior Product Manager) and Rosh Dhanawade (Vice President of Product) chat with Mike Christian, Principal Researcher, and Sara Hu, Research Scientist I, at Education Analytics. In this episode, Mike and Sara share how interoperability technologies are transforming research in the education sector. They also dive into their experiences using Ed-Fi data, Snowflake, SQL, and dbt documentation to conduct large-scale, efficient research at EA, along with the learning curve researchers face when moving from traditional flat files to modern data warehouses. This conversation highlights how bridging research, data engineering, and educational practice enables faster analysis, resulting in better outcomes for students and education stakeholders.
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Economists of Scale: Using Interoperability Technologies for Efficient Research with Large Datasets with Michael Christian and Sara Hu
Why Claude for Teachers Might Be a Student Privacy Trap for Educators
July 31, 2026
Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, and Andrew Rice, CEO at Education Analytics, spoke to The 74 to discuss Anthropic’s new “Claude for Teachers” tool and the impact on and potential risks to educators who are interested in using this tool to generate lesson plans or other classroom materials.
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Why Claude for Teachers Might Be a Student Privacy Trap for Educators
LinkedIn Live Webinar: You've Modernized Your Data System—Now What? Turning Implementation Into Impact
April 21, 2026
What happens after Ed-Fi implementation? How do states turn modern education data systems into real, measurable impact?
This recorded LinkedIn Live conversation brings together Rosh Dhanawade, Vice President of Product at Education Analytics; Vijay Gollapudi, Chief Information Officer at the Tennessee Department of Education; and Sayeelakshmi Srinivasan, Technical Programs Manager at the Ed-Fi Alliance, and is moderated by Marlena Holden, Director of Brand and Communications at Education Analytics. They come together to explore what it takes to move beyond implementation and start driving results with data.
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LinkedIn Live Webinar: You've Modernized Your Data System—Now What? Turning Implementation Into Impact
