Tips: ICPSR
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Education Policy
- U.S. Dept. of Education Laws & GuidanceLegislation, regulations, guidance, and other policy documents can be found here for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and other topics.
U.S. Department of Education Statistics
- Digest of Education StatisticsThe primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
- National Center for Education Statistics - NCESNCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to American education.
- Condition of EducationThis website has the key indicators of the condition of education in the United States. These indicators summarize important developments and trends using the latest statistics and are updated as data become available. A Congressionally mandated annual report on these indicators is provided to the White House and Congress each year.
- IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemA primary source for data on U.S. colleges, universities, technical, and vocational institutions.
International Statistics
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new windowNOTE: users need to create a personal account to download data and documents. An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields from various countries. Qualitative studies can be downloaded as text documents while quantitative data can be downloaded as CSV files.
- OECD Statistics This link opens in a new windowThe Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development collects statistics needed for the analysis of economic and social developments by its in-house analysts, committees, working parties, and Member country governments from statistical agencies and other institutions of its Member countries. The OECD shares the experience gained by Members in compiling reliable and comparable statistics with non-Member countries.
- UNESCO Institute for StatisticsGlobal and internationally comparable statistics on education, literacy, science & technology, culture & communication. Select print editions of the "UNESCO Statistical Yearbook" are available in the Watzek Stacks at HA40 .C8 U59.
