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INTERNATIONAL
  1. Child Poverty in Rich Countries: 2005 (PDF)

    A UNICEF Report found that the U.S. ranks second to worst among 26 OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries in terms of child poverty. The study says: "Protecting children from the sharpest edges of poverty during their years of growth and formation is both the mark of a civilized society and a means of addressing some of the evident problems that affect the quality of life in the economically developed nations."

  1. Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Global Data Center

    Migration data from around the world. Interactive and expanding database gives easy access to migration data and generates instant charts along the way.

  1. Education at a Glance: 2006 Edition 2005 Edition

    The 2006 edition of Education at a Glance enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education internationally.

    The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it and how education systems operate and at the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of student's performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and on adults' chances of employment.

NATIONAL
  1. 2006 ACT National and State Scores

    This report provides information about the performance of your 2006 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors.

  2. Alliance for Excellent Education

    Visit the Alliance’s high school database and find out how high schools fare in your area.

  3. Analysis of 1980, 1990, and 2000 Census language data

    (by Jim Crawford)

  4. The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Years 2002-03 and 2003-04

    This report presents the averaged freshman graduation rate for public high school students for school years 2002-03 and 2003-04 based on data reported by state education agencies to the National Center for Education Statistics.

  5. Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2003-04 This annual report by NCES provides basic information from the Common Core of Data about the nation's largest public school districts in the 2003-04 school year. The data include such characteristics as the numbers of students and teachers, number of high school completers and the averaged freshman graduation rate, and revenues and expenditures. (posted Jan. 4, 2007)
  6. Childstats.gov Statistics on children and families--website sponsored by Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
  7. Child Trends Nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families
    See also the Childtrends databank
  8. The Condition of Education: 2006 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 50 indicators on the status and condition of education and a special analysis on international assessments. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available. (posted Jan. 4, 2007)
  9. Digest of Education Statistics This National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) web site provides a compilation of statistical information covering American education from pre-kindergarten through graduate school
  10. Digest of Education Statistics 2005 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): The 41st in a series of publications initiated in 1962, the Digest's primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school.
  11. Dropout Rates in the United States: 2002 and 2003 This National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report continues the dropout rate report series. The report is based on several sources of data and provides details on high school dropouts and high school completers for 2002 and 2003.
  12. Education Watch - The Nation: Key Education Facts and Figures
  13. The Foundation for Child Development Index of Child Well-Being (CWI), 1975-2003 with Projections for 2004 (PDF)
  14. High Schools in the United States: How does your local high school measure up?

    A new tool on the Alliance website allows users to compare the performance of high schools in their area with other high schools from around the state. Based on "promoting power," an indicator developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the database provides 2003 and 2004 data for high schools, searchable by state, congressional district, or zip code.(posted Jan. 4, 2007)

  15. Higher Education Landscape

    Current demographic trends presented by Admission and Enrollment Services Group of the College Board

  16. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005

    Two Census reports were released. The first was based on data compiled from information collected in the 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS).

    The second report was based on tabulations of economic data from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS) , a powerful new tool that provides timely and updated information about the nation's changing and diverse population every year. The data are available for nearly 7,000 areas including for the first time all congressional districts, and counties, cities and American Indian/Alaska native areas of 65,000 population or more. (posted Jan. 4, 2007)

  17. The KIDS COUNT Data Book

    Data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book are now available in an easy-to-use, powerful online database, "State Level Data Online", that allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; or, download the entire data set as delimited text files.

  18. Language Minorities and Their Educational and Labor Market Indicators--Recent Trends

    A report from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) (June 2004)
  19. Latino migration by states

    from The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (posted Oct. 24, 2006)
  20. Measuring Up 2006

    Measuring Up 2006 consists of the national report card for higher education and fifty state report cards. Its purpose is to provide the public and policymakers with information to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state. Measuring Up 2006 is the fourth in a series of biennial report cards.(posted Jan. 4, 2007)
  21. The 38th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools

  22. Projections of Education Statistics to 2015

    This NCES publication provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment, earned degrees conferred, and current-fund expenditures of degree-granting institutions. For the Nation, the tables, figures, and text contain data on enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2015. For the 50 States and the District of Columbia, the tables, figures, and text contain data on projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and public high school graduates to the year 2015. In addition, the report includes a methodology section describing models and assumptions used to develop national and state-level projections. (posted Jan. 4, 2007)

  23. A Public Education Primer: Basic (and Sometimes Surprising) Facts about the U.S. Education System

    This Center on Education Policy primer provides a comprehensive picture of the nation's public schools with data about students, governance, funding, achievement, teachers, and non-instructional services.

  24. Qualifications of Public Secondary School History Teachers, 1999-2000

    National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES): This Issue Brief reports the combination of certifications and majors and minors to which secondary-level history students are exposed and how these qualifications vary across schools with differing levels of student poverty.

  25. School Enrollment--Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2003 (PDF)

    Highlights school enrollment trends of the population aged 3 and older and the social and economic characteristics of the large and diverse student population, based on data collected in the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the Census Bureau in October 2003. (report issued May 2005)

  26. SchoolMatters Public source for information and analysis about our nation's public schools.
  27. The State of America's Children: 2005 Annual, from the Children's Defense Fund. An essential tool for child advocates for more than two decades, this 2005 special edition takes a close look at 37 million people living in America who are poor (including 13 million children) and the growing numbers of families struggling to survive.
  28. Statistical Analysis Reports

    National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) presents an overview of results from one survey, or from one topic based on analysis across several surveys. The data and findings are presented with commentary to identify substantively and statistically significant results, and their relationship to educational research.

  29. A Statistical Portrait of Hispanics at Mid-Decade

    This statistical profile of the Latino population is based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the Census Bureau's 2005 American Community Survey public use microdata file, which was released August 29, 2006.

  30. Survey of Mexican Migrants by The Pew Hispanic Center Datasets on Hispanic populations (published on March 2, 2005)
  31. Survey of the States' Limited English Proficient Students and Available Educational Programs and Services; 2000-2001 Summary Report (PDF)

    Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (October 2002)

  32. Trends in Higher Education Series: 2005 Education Pays Update (PDF) A Supplement to Education Pays 2004: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society
  33. Urban Institute: Snapshots of America's Families III; Changes in Children's Well-Being and Family Environments (PDF)

    (January 2004)

  34. U.S. Census 2000 Supplemental Survey National and State demographic data
  35. U.S. Census Bureau: Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000 (PDF)

    (October 2003)

CALIFORNIA
  1. California Fact Book 2006 (PDF, 137 pgs., 3MB)

    (Published by the CA Dept. of Education)

  2. California Dept of Education Fact Book 2005 - Handbook of Education Information (PDF)

    (Published by the CA Dept. of Education)

  3. California's Future Population (PDF) from PPIC's Just The Facts Series, June 2005
  4. Demographics from Census 2000

    (California Department of Finance)

  5. Education Watch - California: Key Education Facts and Figures (PDF)
  6. Just The Facts (Public Policy Institute of California) This publication series consists of one-page fact sheets containing detailed statistics on topics of interest and concern in California. The statistics are drawn from the PPIC Statewide Survey and other PPIC research. New fact sheets will be posted on a regular basis, and current fact sheets will be updated periodically.
  7. K-12 Public Enrollment Projections by Ethnicity (2006 Series)

    (California Department of Finance)

  8. Population Indicators for California( from Kids Count 2004)
  9. Public Postsecondary Enrollment Projections, 2006 Series

    (California Department of Finance)

  10. Public School Students, Teachers, and Schools (Ed-Data)

    (California Department of Education)

  11. University of California Information Digest 2000
STATES
  1. Children's Defense Fund presents: Children in the States

    The most up-to-date children's data available on a uniform basis.

  2. The Common Core of Data (CCD)

    National database of information on public primary and secondary schools and local education agencies, can now be easily accessed using the "Build a Table" tool. Users can choose to view data by school, district, county, state, Metropolitan Statistical Area, and Core Based Statistical Area. Data from five CCD surveys, dating back to the 1986-1987 school year, as well as selected data from the Census 2000 School District Tabulation, are available.

  3. Current Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2003-04

    National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) / Institute of Education Sciences (IES) data on current expenditures, by state, for public elementary and secondary education for school year 2002-03.

  4. Education Watch 2006 State Summary Reports

    The State Summary Reports provide a data-based snapshot of student achievement and the condition of public education in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the nation. The information in these reports reveals how far we have to go to ensure that every young American has access to high-quality education. (posted Jan. 4, 2007)

  5. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Online Data Tool

    Easily and quickly create State Education Data Profiles displaying information statewide information in four areas: elementary/ secondary education characteristics, elementary/secondary education finance, postsecondary education, and state demographics, including the number of English language learners (ELL) students.

  6. NCES Projections of Education Statistics to 2014

    (September 2005)

    This publication from the National Center for Education Statistics provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment, earned degrees conferred, and current-fund expenditures of degree-granting institutions. For the Nation, the tables, figures, and text contain data on enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2014. For the 50 States and the District of Columbia, the tables, figures, and text contain data on projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and public high school graduates to the year 2014. In addition, the report includes a methodology section describing models and assumptions used to develop national and state-level projections.

  7. Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA)'s National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) & Language Instruction Educational Programs (PDF)

    State Resource Pages: Provides information on EL population, legislation, standards, etc. for every state.
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