Do you spend your weekends and holidays dreaming about regression models and large-scale data sets? If so, don't miss Mark Schneider - the new commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) - who will give his first public remarks this coming Monday, February 6th, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. He will speak at the American Enterprise Institute's Wohlstetter Conference Center. As commissioner, Schneider's responsibilities include overseeing the National Assessment of Educational Progress - more commonly known as the "nation's report card." You can register for this event online, here.