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.
• America's Children -- statistics on population, health, education, etc.
• Children's Well-Being in Rich Countries -- International rankings from UNICEF, one aspect of which is Educational well-being.
• 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, 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
• Educator's Reference Desk -- (formerly AskERIC) "you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the question answer service will no longer be active, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice."
• 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, 1994-2002--statistics in .pdf format (needs Adobe Acrobat reader).
• 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.
• TRC -- This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
• Urban Education: trends and statistics