Research

College Scorecard — post-enrollment outcomes linking aid records to IRS/Treasury earnings. Earnings, loan repayment, debt via six Portal sub-datasets. Use when tax-record-based earnings needed. Tracks only Title IV aid recipients, not all students.

SAIPE — annual Census poverty estimates for school districts (Portal; county/state not in Portal). Use for district poverty, Title I context, or trends. ~18-month lag. No race/ethnicity disaggregation at district level — use ACS 5-year for that.

PSEO — Census data linking graduates to employment via LEHD wage records. Earnings percentiles at 1/5/10 years post-graduation by institution, degree, CIP. Use for graduate earnings analysis. Coverage: ~29% of graduates from ~31 states.

NHGIS — census geography crosswalks via Portal: links schools (ncessch) and colleges (unitid) to tracts, block groups, CBSAs (1990-2020). Census demographics NOT in Portal — access NHGIS directly. Use for linking education data to census geography.

NCCS — Form 990 data for private nonprofit colleges (Portal: IPEDS-matched, 1993-2016). Revenue, expenses, assets, endowment, governance beyond IPEDS. Use when IRS financial depth needed. Portal ends 2016; public institutions excluded (no Form 990).

NACUBO endowment data (~650 institutions, 2012-2022). Portal: 7 columns only (total endowment, per-FTE, YoY change). Use for endowment size/trends. Full investment/spending needs direct NACUBO access. For all-institution coverage use IPEDS finance.

MEPS — Urban Institute modeled school-level poverty (% at 100% FPL), from CCD + SAIPE (public schools, 2009-2022, 2-3yr lag). Use when FRPL is unreliable due to CEP. Consistent cross-state measurement. Public schools only.

IPEDS — primary federal postsecondary data (~6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, aid, admissions, HR. For college/university analysis. Grad rates = first-time full-time; finance needs GASB/FASB care.

FSA — Title IV aid at institution level (~5,500 institutions, 1999-2021). Pell Grants, Direct/PLUS loans, campus-based aid, financial responsibility scores, 90/10 metrics. Use for aid distribution, loan volume, or for-profit analysis. By unitid.

EDFacts — K-12 outcomes: assessment proficiency, ACGR graduation rates, ESSA accountability at school/district level (2009-2020). Within-state trends and subgroup gaps. Complements CCD with outcome data. Cannot compare across states — use NAEP.

EADA — college athletics gender equity (~2,000+ institutions, 2002-2021). Participation, coaching, salaries, expenses, revenues, athletic aid by gender. Not Title IX compliance data. No sector column; join IPEDS on unitid for institution type.

CRDC — biennial OCR survey of all U.S. public schools (2011-2021). Discipline, course access, harassment, restraint/seclusion by race/sex/disability/EL. Use for civil rights and equity analysis. 2020-21 COVID-impacted; 2011-14 sampled, not universe.

CCD — federal universe of all U.S. public K-12 schools (~100K) and districts (~18K). Enrollment, staffing, finance, directory data (1986-present). Use for public school analysis by grade/race/sex. Public only; excludes private and postsecondary.

CSS — annual Clery Act crime/fire safety for Title IV institutions. Portal: hate crimes only (2005-2021); primary offenses, VAWA, arrests, fire safety need ope.ed.gov directly. Use for campus crime analysis. Identified by IPEDS unitid.

Downloads education datasets from configured mirror sources (parquet/CSV) with local Polars filtering. Use when writing fetch scripts or retrieving CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, SAIPE data. Load after education-data-explorer — retrieval here, not discovery.

Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE). Use to map questions to data. Load before education-data-query — discovery here, download there.

Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets. Coded values (-1/-2/-3), year definitions, grade encoding, suppression, licensing, cross-source joins. Use when interpreting Portal data before analysis. Routes to source-specific skills.

Data science methodology for Python research: EDA, validation, causal inference (IV, DiD, RD, synthetic control), clustering/PCA/UMAP, supervised ML, geospatial, visualization. Method selection guidance. For syntax, load tool-specific skills.

Operational framework for the DAAF orchestrator. Defines engagement modes, confirmation protocol, subagent dispatch, context budget, and reference-loading. Loaded exclusively by the orchestrator — not for subagents or user questions.

Guide for creating DAAF agent definition files. Covers 12-section template, hook registration, skills-in-frontmatter, integration checklist. Use when adding or revising agents. For SKILL.md files, use skill-authoring instead.

Draft academic paper sections with notation protocol, anti-hedging, and humanizer pass. Replaces /draft-paper and /humanizer.

Utility commands — commit, compile, validate-bib, journal, context-status, deploy, learn. Replaces individual utility skills.

Create and audit presentations (Beamer or Quarto RevealJS). Combines talk creation, visual audit, and compilation. Replaces /create-talk, /visual-audit, /compile-latex (for talks).

Submission pipeline — journal targeting, replication package, audit, and final gate. Replaces /submit, /target-journal, /audit-replication, /data-deposit.