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Urban Leadership

This guide is to the useful for students in the Urban Leadership subprogram of the School of Education Studies

United States and California Education Data

NCES (National Center for Education Statistics). The primary U.S. federal entity for the collection and dissemination of data on education. Examples of resources include:

  • Digest of Education Statistics. Comprehensive statistical compendium for education in the United States. Enrollments, dropout rates, state teacher salaries, etc. 
  • Fast Facts State-level statistics (52) Statewide information in elementary/secondary education characteristics and finance, postsecondary education, public libraries, assessments, and selected demographics for all states.

California Department of Education: Data and statistics collected from California schools

Historical Statistics of the United States. Contains statistics on a wide spectrum of social and economic developments.

ICPSR Data Archive: (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) :Archive at the University of Michigan, maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.

International Education Data

OECD iLibrary: Includes education statistics for OECD countries

UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.

World Development Indicators DataBank: Education indicators for access, progression, completion, literacy, teachers, population, and expenditures. 

ICPSR Data Archive: (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) from the University of Michigan, maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.

Sage Data provides access to U.S. and international statistical information. Includes some full text tables.

Tests, Measures, Scales, or Inventories

Most psychological tests are not freely available, even through library subscriptions. Researchers spend a lot of time and money on developing validated and reliable measurements, and want to get paid for them.

We subscribe to several databases that have tests and measurements:

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Data Services

The library offers assistance with locating large datasets and with using data for Geographical Information Systems projects. For example, you might want to display a large data set on educational attainment in selected U.S. communities on a map.

For more help see: Geographic Information Systems