By Ryan Quinn The Trump administration canceled nearly $900 million in Institute of Education Sciences contracts Monday—a massive blow to a U.S. Education Department agency that houses the National Center for Education Statistics, funds research on how to improve higher education and provides publicly accessible data on U.S. postsecondary institutions. Researchers and higher education associations worked Tuesday to better understand the scale of the cuts, which still wasn’t clear 24 hours after news first broke. A department official said 89 IES contracts were canceled, while other organizations put the total at closer to 170. While the Education Department said that some
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