LibGuides: EDUC 1265: Comparative Education Systems: Governance and Policy: US education data

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Child Trends Databank
A resource for indicators of child and family well-being and associated measures. The DataBank includes close to 100 population-based measures, covering the domains of health and safety, child care and education, and behaviors linked to positive and negative well-being.
Civil Rights Data Collection (US Department of Education)
From the Office of Civil Rights; provides data on public school enrollment and services in the United States according to ethnicity, disability, and gender.
Common Core of Data (NCES)
The Department of Education's primary database on all public elementary and secondary education in the US. A comprehensive, annual, national database.
Fast Facts (NCES)
Concise information on a range of educational issues, from early childhood to adult learning. Fast Facts draw from various published sources and are updated as new data become available. Additional references on each of these topics are highlighted within each fact.
Information Works!
provides data from school, district, and state reports on public education in Rhode Island, and is provided by the RI Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the National Center on Public Education and Social Policy at URI.
Institute for Education Sciences (US Department of Education)
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to more than 250,000 datasets in the social and behavioral sciences. The database hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.
This database DOES NOT work with EZProxy. Please download the SSL-VPN client to your computer from software.brown.edu to access this resource from off-campus.

MapED (NCES)
Create maps using and combining demographic and school data.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
The primary federal organization within the US Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences responsible for collecting statistics relating to education in the US and other nations. Includes tables and figures for quick searching.
National Institute for Early Education Research(NIEER)
Includes indicators of pre-school education policy across the fifty states.
SAT and PSAT Data Tables (The College Board)
These resources provide important information about test characteristics, validity, reliability, norms, scaling, and growth across assessments.
US Census Bureau
The Census Bureau provides information on a variety of educational topics, from educational attainment and school enrollment to school costs and financing.

Chronicle Data
From the Chronicle of Higher Education. Faculty and staff salary information for more than 4700 colleges and universities.
College Results Online
A database provided by the Education Trust containing information on graduation rates at public and private universities available by ethnicity, gender, and comparison groups of similar universities.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to more than 250,000 datasets in the social and behavioral sciences. The database hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.
This database DOES NOT work with EZProxy. Please download the SSL-VPN client to your computer from software.brown.edu to access this resource from off-campus.

National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NCES)
Quickly accessible statistics on adult literacy in the US categorized by state, county, and other area types.
National Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis (NCHEMS)
A collection of statistics relating to education and policymaking, and includes a "Generate Your Own Data" feature based on user-selected criteria
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
Campus Safety and Security (CSS) provides statistics of campus security at the nation's universities.