What Is the Stanford Education Data Archive Teaching Us About National Educational Achievement?

Abstract

The Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) launched in 2016 to provide nationally comparable, publicly available test score data for U.S. public school districts. I introduce a special collection of six articles that each use SEDA to lend their questions and findings a national scope. Together, these articles demonstrate a range of uses of SEDA for educational research. I review their contributions and discuss next steps for SEDA-based research as more years and levels of data become available.