The U.S. Department of Education has launched the dashboard at http://dashboard.ed.gov/dashboard.aspx.  The dashboard shows what the U.S. Department of Education considers to be important indicators of how the nation, and each state, is progressing on the outcomes necessary to achieve the national goal. The dashboard includes national and state data and shows trends in the data on several topics such as early childhood education, K-12 student achievement levels, college enrollment and completion, and teacher education.