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Ed.D Research Resources

Links to scholarly articles, books, dissertations, statistics, policy, etc.

Open Data

            Contains data and statistics collected from schools in the state. 

  • Childstats.gov

    Data included in FedStats but " this website concentrates on "...statistics and reports on children and families."

  • Education Watch Online

    Ed Watch Interactive is a user-friendly source of data on educational performance and equity by race and class, kindergarten through college.

  • KidsCount Data Center

    Explore hundreds of measures of well-being for kids across the nation, or in your state, city, or community.

  • NAEP State Profiles

    State Profiles presents key data about each state's performance in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics, reading, writing, and science for grades 4 and 8.

  • Nation's Report Card

    The Nation's Report Card presents the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which measures student achievement in the U.S. in various subjects over time.

  • National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

    Collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

  • New York State Education Department

    Contains data and statistics collected from New York schools and learning support resources.

  • New York State Report Cards

    The New York State Report Cards provide enrollment, demographic, attendance, suspension, dropout, teacher, assessment, accountability, graduation rate, post-graduate plan, career and technical education, and fiscal data for public and charter schools, districts, and the State.

  • NYC Department of Education

    Research and Data on NYC Schools.

  • SJSU Institutional Research

            Contains reports about SJSU student enrollment, graduation rates, faculty recruitment

Open Web - Advanced Search

The open web provides a plethora of resources for finding data.  Try using Google Advanced searching or Google Dataset Search.  

Tips for Advanced Google searching include:

  • Include search terms like data or table 
  • Google ignores the word AND as a search operator. But, typing OR in all caps will find similar or related terms (e.g. women OR females OR girls).
  • Search for a particular document type (e.g. childhood obesity filetype:xls)
  • Search for data on a particular site or domain (e.g. childhood obesity site:.gov)
  • Exclude words by using the "-" sign in front of the word you wish to exclude