National Center for Educational Statistics

摘要

Statistics and facts about education are offered free to all consulting this webpage. Public and private elementary and secondary schools in the USA, school districts, colleges and libraries, plus international statistics are covered in reports, tables and figures. Funding opportunities, job openings, surveys, programmes and annual reports catch immediate attention. Cumulative data is found in the Nation's Report Card option and a Digest of Education Statistics. Especially noteworthy to education researchers is the publications option, where basic to advanced level searches of the Education Resources Information Center database ERIC are possible. Queries yield varying results from only indexing information to abstracts and full text articles. Some searches under publications take users to listings of items made available on the internet by the US Department of Education. In several locations throughout the website hyperlinks connect to additional information plus pages of professional organizations and those of educational institutions. Users will discover that the site circumvents lengthy database searches, web browsing and working one's way through shelves of both government and state documents to collect information. In brief, postings facilitate access to a virtual gold mine of educational data.