CMR 201 17: Mass state law for data protection.
The Condition of Education 2009 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 46 indicators on the status and condition of education.
This National Center for Education Statistics Issue Brief provides statistics related to the number and Percentage of homeschooled students in the United States and parents’ reasons for homeschooling their children.
A data warehouse is a repository of data from many sources. Unlike a typical "transactional" system used for day-to-day operations, a data warehouse is structured to maintain large amounts of related, historical data for analysis and reporting. A data warehouse provides for easy reconstruction of "snapshots" of historical data, as well as the ability to link such snapshots over time using certain criteria.
From the site: "Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data; facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and students; and ensures long-term preservation..."
This report presents 2006-07 school year information at the national and state level on student enrollment by grade and by race/ethnicity within grade, the numbers of teachers and other education staff, and several student/staff ratios.
Web 2.0 data visualization tools.
Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.
Education Week special issue on states' efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education
The American Association of University Professors' annual look at faculty salaries in colleges and universities.