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Background information
New books
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Databases
Education databases
Related Databases
Websites
U.S. Census Bureau demographic data including school district level data.
U.S. Census data compiled by the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, includes demographic data and educational attainment by cities, counties, and Bay Area.
Statistics on school performance, test scores, student demographics and school staffing.
Education Data Partnership's Fiscal, Demographic and Performance Data on K-12 Schools in California. "The state, county, district and school reports have a wealth of data about student demographics and performance, plus information about staffing, including teacher salaries."
"Independent and impartial, EdSource strives to advance the common good by developing and widely distributing trustworthy, useful information that clarifies complex K–14 issues and promotes thoughtful decisions about California’s public education system."
"This web site serves as a central guide for education data resources including high-value data sets, data visualization tools, resources for the classroom, applications created from open data and more. These datasets have been gathered from various agencies to provide detailed information on the state of education on all levels, from cradle to career and beyond. Check back frequently because the site will be updated as more datasets and tools become available."
"ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community."
"The database, which contains selected links to a range of official information sources on education, can also be accessed online."
"The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education."
"The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating economies and administered to15-year-olds in schools."
OECD Stat Extracts "includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies."
RAND California: Education Statistics includes enrollment, demographics, expenditures, test scores, and much more.
Current and historical STAR test results from the California Department of Education.
"The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality has five objectives: to monitor these and other trends in poverty and inequality, to support scientific analysis of poverty and inequality, to develop science-based policy on poverty and inequality, to disseminate data and research on poverty and inequality, and to train the next generation of scholars and policy analysts."
"The Common Data Set Initiative is a collaborative effort between publishers and the educational community to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student's transition into higher education, as well as to reduce the burden on colleges of compiling and reporting information. Questions and definitions used by the U.S. Department of Education in its college surveys are a guide in the development of CDS items. Common Data Set items undergo broad review by secondary schools and two-and four-year colleges."
"Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online is an interactive web-based data system that gives higher education stakeholders easy access to information on finance, performance, and enrollments for individual institutions, groups of institutions, or the nation as a whole. Recent patterns in higher education finance are presented using six primary "metrics" compiled by the Delta Cost Project (shown below). These metrics mirror those in the Delta Cost Project’s Trends in College Spending reports, where national-level patterns and trends are presented. The TCS system allows institutional-level comparisons with those national data."
"Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, culture and communication."
"Your comprehensive data and analysis source for key topics in education."
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