Education
Education Data and Research

• AACTE Education Policy  --designed to help people access national, regional, and state education policy information, and includes links to state governments, departments of education and judicial systems. There are links to hundreds of newspapers, policy centers, and associations.
• ADHD Resources -- from the National Resource Center on ADHD. Excellent.
• Almanac of Higher Learning -- from NEA
• America's Children -- statistics on population, health, education, etc.
• Child Welfare Outcomes 2006-2009: Report to Congress
• Class Size Reduction and Teacher Quality Initiative
• Classification of Secondary School Courses (CSSC) -- "provides a general inventory of courses taught nationwide at the secondary school level (grades 9 through 12). This provides school administrators, state and local education planners, and research scientists a resource to convert course offerings, information from transcripts, master teaching schedules, and other sources into formats appropriate for analysis and practical application."
• Common Core of Data -- a program of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of information concerning all  public elementary and secondary schools (approximately 95,000) and school districts  (approximately 17,000).
• Condition of Education-- A searchable time series, with 60 different indicators of educational achievement, curriculum, human and financial resources, diversity, educational outcomes.
• Department of Education Program Offices -- also look on left menu bar for programs by subject.
• Department of Education Topics from A to Z--research info from DOE, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) clickable at a glance, on all kinds of topics--student achievement, statistics, fellowships, and lots more.
• Digest of Education Statistics- the source!
• Education Law: An Overview -- includes full-text documents
• Edutopia -- "The George Lucas Educational Foundation is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by using digital media to document, disseminate, and advocate for innovative, replicable strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives."
• ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library--the best full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory. The entire file of ERIC Digests is now available online here. To search the ERIC database for the digests, go to the Advanced Search screen. Enter your search term(s) and select "ERIC Digests in Full Text" as the Publication Type.
• Girl's Education -- "body of empirical evidence that demonstrates strong benefits of girls’ education, which span across a wide range of areas including maternal and child health, social stability, environmental benefits and economic growth. " from the World Bank, it includes issues and data.
• Home School Students--Scholastic achievement and demographic characteristics of home school students in 1998. An article from the Education Policy Analysis Archives (A peer-reviewed scholarly electronic journal).
• Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms, 1994-2003--statistics in .pdf format (needs Adobe Acrobat reader). See menu on left.
• Kids Count Statistical Database--statistics on the physical, social, economic and educational well-being of children.
• National Center for Education Statistics--THE place to go for any kind of statistics on American education. Also includes longitudinal surveys, educational outcomes data. Select both "Statistics" and "Surveys"--each of them contains extensive info on post-secondary education.
• The Nation's Report Card -- national assessment of educational progress
• Peterson's Education Center-- a guide private secondary schools in the US.
• School District Decision Making Information-- Basic demographic and economic data on school districts state by state throughout the country based on the most recent census. Registration is free. Click HERE to directly compare individual, local School Districts across the nation based on the 2000 census. Next census data available will be in 2010.
• Status and Trends in the Education of Blacks -- in. .pdf from the NCES.