Educational Leadership

ICPSR advances and expands social and behavioral research, acting as a global leader in data stewardship and providing rich data resources and responsive educational opportunities for present and future generations.

"Welcome to the NCES International Activities Program. Learn more about how U.S. education compares with education in other countries."

"The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education."

"The Common Core of Data (CCD) is a program of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics that annually collects fiscal and non-fiscal data about all public schools, public school districts and state education agencies in the United States. The data are supplied by state education agency officials and include information that describes schools and school districts, including name, address, and phone number; descriptive information about students and staff, including demographics; and fiscal data, including revenues and current expenditures."

"The School District Demographics System provides access to school district demographic and related geographic data."

"The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is a system of related questionnaires that provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education and policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The SASS system covers a wide range of topics from teacher demand, teacher and principal characteristics, general conditions in schools, principals' and teachers' perceptions of school climate and problems in their schools, teacher compensation, district hiring and retention practices, to basic characteristics of the student population."

"This search tool lets you locate all tables/figures/charts published in the inventory of NCES' National Education Data Resource Center (NEDRC) Postsecondary Tables Library; the Condition of Education; the Digest of Education Statistics; Indicators of School Crime and Safety and other NCES publications. Tables are constantly being added (thousands of tables, graphs & figures are now available). State tables can be created by visiting State Education Data Profiles."

"The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world."

US Department of Education -Data & Statistics

"Maintaining and improving upon internationally recognized programs requires ongoing research, evaluation and development."

The Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.