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WELCOME TO CARE's UNDERSTANDING AMERICA STUDY EDUCATION PROJECT

The CESR Center for Applied Research in Education (CARE) poses questions to the subset of UAS panel households with at least one K-12 child. Data collection began in March 2020 when COVID initially shut down schools and has continued since. CARE’s team fields a broad range of education-specific surveys to UAS households, posing questions about children’s progress, mental health, adult respondents’ attitudes towards education policies, beliefs about the value of postsecondary education, among many other education-relevant topics. We have also occasionally included households with a pre-k child, or households with adults enrolled at the postsecondary level. We also sometimes include a random sample of UAS households without K-12 children.

This page provides access to UAS Education data, documentation, and additional information. Scroll down for downloadable data files, methodology summaries, toplines, crosstabs, and information about our research team.

TECHNICAL FILES (Datasets, Methodology, Toplines, and Crosstabs)

For each UAS Education survey, we provide 1) the analytic data file (in both stata and .csv formats), 2) a methodology document that includes toplines, and 3) a crosstabs document. They are organized below in order of fielding dates.



PUBLICATIONS

With at least fifteen exclusive reports about UAS results published in major media outlets, popular and education press have cited our data in the context of pressing educational policy discussions dozens of times over the last four years. Documenting education issues of national importance, we have produced over thirty public-facing reports, briefs, and blogs, as well as four peer-reviewed journal articles. We provide a full listing of articles we ourselves have authored, as well as a catalogue of others that have cited our data on our research team’s CARE.


RESEARCH TEAM

Our UAS Education team consists of experts in education research and policy, as well as survey design and analysis. When not working on UAS surveys, we conduct research and evaluations designed to increase understanding of how educational policies affect students, teachers, and schools, and whether interventions are effective, for whom, and under what conditions. You can learn more about our other work on our CARE website.

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Acknowledgement to include in presentations and publications based on CESR UAS education data sets
Three NSF RAPID grants (#2037179, #2120194, # 2214168), three grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and one from the Schaeffer-Peterson Foundation have supported UAS Education work. We are grateful for financial support from these four organizations.