General / Broad
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ACT: Reports and Policy Reports
ACT provides scholarly and technical reports on a variety of topics, including test and test-item fairness, test reliability and validity, improving the achievement of at-risk populations, and the determinants of academic success.
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Educational Policy Institute: Research
EPI research focuses primarily on the issues related to educational opportunity throughout the education continuum, from early childhood education to graduate and professional studies, including adult education and workforce development.
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National Center for Education Statistics
The primary source of education statistics collected by the U.S. government.
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National Education Association
Contains information on faculty salaries and benefits, the economic conditions in the states, faculty workload, trends in bargaining, and information on non-faculty professionals on campus.
Illinois
Pre-K - 12 Statistics / Reports
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Common Core Data (CCD)
From the National Center for Educational Statistics. CCD is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of information concerning all public elementary and secondary schools (approximately 95,000) and school districts (approximately 17,000).
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Education Finance Statistics Center
From the National Center for Educational Statistics. If you are seeking education finance information for elementary/secondary public or private education, this National Center for Education Statistics web site should help you. Included are links for questions about Postsecondary Surveys, Funding Opportunities, and Student Financial Assistance.
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Education Week's Quality Counts
Annual reports providing state-by-state data on educational quality. *The Quality Counts report was retired in 2024.
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Education Week's Technology Counts
Most annual reports have includeded state-by-state data related to technology issues in education. The 2010 report, however, focuses on trends, including the growth of online curricula, opportunities for online coursetaking, the use of multimedia digital content, online assessments, and school policies on cellphones, iPods, wikis and blogs, and various forms of social media, as well as several other measures of how schools and districts are
using technology to improve teaching and learning.
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Kids Count Data Center
Includes numerous measure of child well-being, including state-by-state data and data by topic.
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High School Benchmarks
The High School Benchmarks report series is designed for secondary education practitioners and policymakers to be able to benchmark key postsecondary outcomes of their high school graduates as measured by enrollment, first-year persistence, and eventual completion of a postsecondary credential.
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National Education Association Resource Library
Filter by type to find statistical reports focusing on public schools and educator issues. The reports cover status and salary issues of schoolteachers.
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Nation's Report Card
Report Cards communicate the findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a continuing and nationally representative measure of achievement in various subjects over time. The Nation’s Report Card compares performance among states, urban districts, public and private schools, and student demographic groups.
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Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data
From the U.S. Census Bureau. Education finance data include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) of elementary and secondary public school systems. Statistics cover all states, including the District of Columbia, and are available on an annual basis. File formats for downloadable data may vary by year.
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Public School District Finance Peer Search School Year
From the National Center for Educational Statistics. This searchable database will allow you to compare the finances of a school district with its peers (those districts which share similar characteristics).Uses (FY2007) data in combination with its corresponding non-fiscal data (SY2006-2007) and Percent Poverty data (calendar year 2007). The collection and adjudication of fiscal data are generally 1-2 years behind non-fiscal data.
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School District Demographic System (SDDS)
The School District Demographics System (SDDS) is a Web-based resource operated by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education. SDDS enables access to school district demographic and related geographic data that is not available in any other form.
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Urban Institute: Education
The Urban Institute and six universities have founded the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). "CALDER will mine the longitudinal databases emerging as educational systems are subject to increased accountability, especially under the No Child Left Behind Act." Reports are added on a regular basis.
Higher Education
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Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool
Designed to provide rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to campus crime data.
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College Board: Research Reports
Data, reports, and research provided by the College Board.
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College Navigator
Primarily for students exploring college options, but has some good basic statistics on specific institutions.
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ETS: Research for Higher Education
Research reports produced by the ETS.
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Faculty Salaries
AAUP and the Chronicle of Higher Education provide information on faculty salaries by rank at more than 1,400 institutions.
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Grapevine
A national database of tax support for higher education hosted by the Illinois State University College of Education. Individual state reports include current fiscal year and previous fiscal year state tax appropriations for operating expenses and a 50-state summary table showing state totals for the current year, the previous two years, a ten-year figure, and percentages of change over one, two, and ten years.
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Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
HERI is based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA. Its web site provides information from surveys of faculty and students on such topics as attitudes toward technology, service learning and the college experience. The Institute's holdings include more than a hundred datasets that are regularly maintained for analysis of postsecondary education.
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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains and provides access to an archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects. For more information about how Illinois State University faculty and students can access ICPSR, contact Vanette Schwartz.
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IPEDS - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
Note: Although some sections of this site require a user ID and password, you will be able to complete some peer analysis. This is part of the National Center for Education Statistics
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National Survey of Student Engagement
Designed to obtain, on an annual basis, information from scores of colleges and universities nationwide about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development.
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NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policy Making and Analysis
Provides comparative state data related to student success, policies, and competitiveness. *This site was retired in 2024. Users must complete an informational form to retrieve archival data.
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Survey of Earned Doctorates
Gathers information annually from 45,000 new U.S. research doctorate graduates about their educational histories, funding sources, and post-doctoral plans. A report published by the National Science Foundation uses data collected from the 2019 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) to report on trends in the numbers of individuals who earn research doctoral degrees from U.S. academic institutions.
International
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OECD: Education and Skills
The OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development) provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of the education systems. OECD Member countries co-operate to gather the information, to develop and apply common definitions and criteria for the quality control of the data, to verify the data and to provide the information necessary to interpret the submitted data. One helpful data report available through OECD is the Education at a Glance Report, which enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance. It provides an array of indicators on systems. The indicators show who participates in education, how much is spent on it and how education systems operate. They also illustrate a wide range of educational outcomes, comparing, for example, student performance in key subject areas and the impact of education on earnings and on adults’ chances of employment.
2024 report available
here.
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Open Doors: Report on International Educational Exchange
Information and data tables about international students in the U.S. and Americans studying abroad. Also includes information about scholarships and funding.
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Education
Includes data collected from about 200 countries and territories through two annual surveys.