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Strengthening Postsecondary Pathways Through Partnership

This case study demonstrates how the Arizona Department of Education and Education Forward Arizona have formed an ongoing partnership that reinforces each agency’s role and responsibility in increasing statewide access to and use of postsecondary outcomes data to improve pathways for students.

The National Student Clearinghouse as an Integral Part of the National PostsecondaryData Infrastructure

This report explains how the National Student Clearinghouse serves as a core part of U.S. postsecondary data infrastructure, while identifying areas for better transparency, coverage, and institutional utility.
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Understanding FERPA Blocks 

You may have heard postsecondary data outcomes users discuss a “FERPA block”—when student information does not appear in data released from sources such as the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), making it difficult to calculate student-level data such as enrollment and persistence. But what does “FERPA block” actually mean, and why does it happen?