The 2008 edition includes 43 indicators in five main areas: (1) participation in education; (2) learner outcomes; (3) student effort and educational progress; (4) the contexts of elementary and secondary education; and (5) the contexts of postsecondary education.
Education Week special issue on states' efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education
The goal of this practice guide is to formulate
specific and coherent evidence-based recommendations for use by educators aiming to quickly and dramatically improve student achievement in low-performing
schools. Although schoolwide reform models exist, most assume a slow and steady approach to school reform. They do not seek to achieve the kind of quick school turnaround examined in this guide.
The American Association of University Professors' annual look at faculty salaries in colleges and universities.
The Report Card from the American Legislative Exchange Council, collects and provides, within a single volume,the most basic and customary measures of educational resources and achievement on a state-by-state basis.
This six-year study conducted by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform found strong and consistent relationships between community organizing and policy and resource decisions,school-level improvements, and student outcomes.
Encyclopedia of Life's goal is to aggregate virtually all known data, including taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being, about every living species. Under constant development, the site currently has a small number of exemplar species pages with extensive information.
These publications of the GastĂłn Institute document the Latino educational experience in Massachusetts through research directed at scholarly audiences as well policy makers and Latino community leaders and institutions.
UNICEF's annual assessment of the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children. Includes charts and graphs, and statistical tables in PDF or excel formats.
Based on IES’ What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). The WWC evaluates research on practices and interventions to let the education community know what is likely to work. Then, DWW provides examples of possible ways educators might apply those research findings in the classroom.