Congress should require that eligibility for grants to improve Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs is contingent on interstate data sharing and that the CDC publish a report detailing best practices on the use of this data.

To Do: Make Grants to Improve Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Contingent on Interstate Data Sharing

Measuring a student’s academic progress with valid, reliable data should go hand-in-hand with providing that child an education, writes Daniel Castro in Government Technology.

States Need to Embrace Data-Driven Education

Watch the Center for Data Innovation's webinar on how better data can help students with their higher education pursuits, the challenges in providing this data today, and the steps policymakers can take to address these barriers.

How Can Better Federal Data on Higher Education Outcomes Reduce Student Debt?

Policymakers should actively support data mining in education and preserve the capacity to use this data effectively, while pushing back at overly restrictive efforts to protect student data in the name of privacy, writes Joshua New in Statescoop.

Data Mining Can Improve Our Schools. Will Congress Allow It?

Congress should establish a National Data Foundation to make robust data collection and sharing the norm, not the exception.

To Do: Establish a National Data Foundation

The administration should direct NSF to deduct negative “points” from the scoring of research grant applications coming from colleges and universities that do not work to favor STEM enrollment and graduation.

To Do: Hold Colleges and Universities Accountable for Bias Against STEM Students

Congress should allocate a share of federal research funding to promote technology transfer and commercialization, such as through a “Spurring Commercialization of Our Nation’s Research” program.

Partly Done: Allocate a Share of Federal Research Funding to Tech Transfer and Commercialization

Without policy change, the United States will continue trending toward data siloes—an inefficient world in which data is isolated, and its benefits are restricted.

Overcoming Barriers to Data Sharing in the United States

This report provides a snapshot of states’ efforts to create open data policies and portals.

To Do: Link Longitudinal Student Records

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