About Us

The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development of quality longitudinal data systems, while providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focusing on improving data quality, access and use.

The campaign is managed by the National Center for Educational Achievement. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the founding funder; additional support has been provided by the Casey Family Programs and the Lumina Foundation for Education.

improve the collection, availability, and use of high-quality education data, and
implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement.

The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development of quality longitudinal data systems, while providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focusing on improving data quality, access and use.

The DQC goals are to have:

Longitudinal education data systems in 50 states by 2009
Increased understanding by policymakers and educators of how to use longitudinal and financial data in their efforts to improve student achievement
Promotion of data standards and efficient data transfer and exchange

The DQC was created in 2005, with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as a way for many organizations who were working on separate but similar campaigns regarding educational data systems to come together to ensure coordinated and unduplicated efforts towards reaching their common goals. The mission is to provide support for and advocacy on behalf of organizations that create, collect, and use education data in an effort to improve student achievement.

The campaign is managed by the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA).