Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership

Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has taken a hit from DOGE, losing about 90 percent of its workforce. Regardless of the future of the Education Department, we need to continue to improve education R&D and identify what in IES should be preserved, or indeed expanded, to meet the nation’s needs today and in the future. Those functions should find a home in a rebuilt IES or in any other agency that takes on IES’s responsibilities. Consider…