Education

Links to reports to state/district/school data.

On December 10, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which
reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. Developed and passed with
strong, bipartisan agreement, ESSA replaced No Child Left Behind (NCLB) as the nation’s main education
law.

Access reports and statistics on education in Pennsylvania.

Report and data on faculty status. This report examines the costs to academic freedom incurred by the current trend toward overreliance on part-and full-time non-tenure-track faculty.

Reports from the College Board on higher education.

Selected resources on college rankings from the library at UIUC.

In Print in the Library.

Yearly statistical reports from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Using 2000 Census data, breakdowns by state, county, city, and congressional district.

Educate your students about the value and everyday use of statistics. The Statistics in Schools program provides resources for teaching and learning with real-life data. Explore the site for standards-aligned, classroom-ready activities in math and history, data visualizations and more.

Reports on dropout rates in urban schools from the nonprofit America's Promise Alliance.

International education statistics from the World Bank.

"A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States"

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

Statistics on US Public Schools from Standard & Poor's.

International statistics

Tips on using LexisNexis to get information on and texts of education law.