ECLDS in the News

Data in use

• Early Care and Education Participation for Young Children in Foster Care: Administrative and Contextual Insights, Center for Early Education and Development, University of Minnesota (Legislative report written on behalf of Minnesota Department of Human Services), December 2022
• Evaluating Early Childhood Program Access, Children's Defense Fund, May 2018
• Peacetime Emergency Child Care Grants Round Two: Administration and Scoring, Child Care Aware of Minnesota, May 2020

Articles and publications

• Bringing Early Childhood and K12 Together, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, September 2019
• Data Stories for the Data Curious, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, July 2019
• Data Story: State and Local Leaders Need Analytic Tools to Tell Their Data Stories, ECDataWorks, May 2019
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Matching Methodologies, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, May 2021
• How Policymakers Can Support Early Childhood Data Governance, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, September 2019
• Identifying Home Visiting Data to Integrate with Other Early Childhood Data, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, October 2019
• The Importance of Having a Distinct Count for Early Childhood, ECIDS Nebraska, 2024
• Improving the Lives of Young Children through Data, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, October 2018
• The Integration of Early Childhood Data: State Profiles and a Report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education, November 2016
• Interagency Data Linking and Common Identifiers, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, June 2020
• Legislative Report: Family Supports and Improvement Program. Publication Date: January 15, 2023. Mandated by: 2021 Minn. Laws 1st Spl. Sess. Chap. 7 Art. 14 Sec. 19
• NCES Forum Guide to Data Governance, National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
• One Step at a Time: The Benefits of an Incremental Approach to the Integration of Home Visiting and Other Early Childhood Data, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, October 2019
• Results for America 2024 Invest in What Works State Standard of Excellence, Promising Example - Minnesota
• Rising to the Challenge: Building Effective Systems for Young Children and Families, a BUILD E-Books, Chapter 7, BUILD Initiative, 2015
• SLDS Best Practices Brief: Elevator Speeches, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, July 2019
• SLDS Issue Brief: State Communications Plans, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, February 2025
• SLDS Issue Brief: Using ECIDS Data to Support Continuous Quality Improvement, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, November 2017
• SLDS Spotlight: State Approaches to Engaging and Sustaining Postsecondary and Workforce Partners, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, March 2022
• SLDS Spotlight: State Approaches to SLDS Branding, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, September 2021
• SLDS Spotlight: Supporting Data Use Through an Online Learning Hub, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, March 2023
• SLDS State Data Use Cases, Minnesota, March 2019
• State Information Request: State Examples of Early Childhood Integrated Data Systems, Education Commission of the States, February 2020
• State Opportunity Index: Minnesota, Strada Education Foundation, October 2025
• State Spotlight: Early Childhood Integrated Data System: Minnesota's Early Childhood Longitudinal Data System, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program, National Center for Education Statistics, December 2015
• States Overcome Challenges with Early Childhood Education Data through Collaboration, EdScoop, March 2019
• Steps for Obtaining Consent from Stakeholders to Share Home Visiting Data, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, February 2020
• Using Integrated Data to Examine Access to Services for Children of Color: State Spotlight on Minnesota, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, February 2019

Videos

• Minnesota's Data Story, Child Trends, February 2018

Webinars

• Making Use of Integrated Data: State Examples of Using ECIDS Data to Inform Policies and Practices, Early Childhood Data Collaborative, June 2017—Minnesota portion of webinar begins around 22:16

Write-ups and blog posts

• Connecting Home Visiting, Early Care and Education Will Benefit Families, The Chronicle of Social Change, 2/15/19
• Minnesota Integrates State Data to Improve Early Childhood Programming, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2/16/18
• Serv and Return: State Early Childhood Data Dashboards, Alliance for Early Success, 2/28/2023