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How to Build Integrated Ed-Fi Infrastructure to Support State and Local Use Cases: A Roadmap for State Education Agencies

3 Takeaways from the Knowledge Alliance Fall Forum on K-12 to Career Pipeline Opportunities

Education Analytics Recognized for Efforts to Expand Ed-Fi Enabled Services to 1.4 Million Students Nationwide

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The Impact of Relay Graduate School of Education Teachers on Student Attendance

This report examines how New York City teachers from the Relay Graduate School of Education influenced students’ attendance. We found that Relay teachers had positive, statistically significant impacts on students’ attendance, especially for students from historically marginalized backgrounds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Identifying Schools Achieving Great Results with Highest-Need Students

In partnership with the CORE Data Collaborative and the National Campaign for Highest-Need Students, we developed a School Needs Index to help us look across schools to understand the variation of student need in a common, digestible, and actionable way. This working paper describes the School Needs Index, which uses academic performance, demographic, and economic indicators to yield a nuanced profile of the level of student need at a school.

Evidence-Based Practices for Assessing Students' Social and Emotional Well-Being

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Three Strategies Ed Tech Communicators Should Make Before the Year Ends

Marlena Holden

Online and in face-to-face conversations, confusion and uncertainty are swirling around marketing strategy, and the ed tech sector is not immune. Amid anxiety and excitement over the latest wave of AI models, communications practitioners are wondering about two things: what they need to learn themselves and how to best support their organizations with messaging. How can communicators in the ed tech space best position their companies amid the noise? In this blog, Director of Brand & Communications Marlena Holden addresses this question by describing three areas that ed tech communicators should focus on for the rest of the year to build external trust in their company and strengthen their brand.

Day in the Life: Q&A with Senior Data Engineer Angelica Lastra

Angelica Lastra

Get to know Senior Data Engineer Angelica Lastra in the latest installment of our Day in the Life series. In the blog, Angelica describes her journey from designer to engineer, the joy she finds in fixing broken code or untangling data pipeline, and the wisdom she would impart on her younger self about her career.

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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.

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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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.

Education Analytics Achieves ISO/IEC 27001 Certification, Completes SOC 2 Audit

January 14, 2026

Education Analytics (EA), a leading education non-profit dedicated to innovative research and technology solutions, announced it achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification for the first time and successfully completed its Type 2 SOC 2 audit.