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Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
This guide is to assist Educational Leadership and Policy Studies faculty and students in their research needs.
Resources Available on the Internet
The following are some ELPS-related websites. If you have suggestions of other sites for consideration, please email me at rachel.cannady@utsa.edu.
- Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new windowThe number one source of news, information, and job opportunities for the college and university community. Contains full content of current issue; essays, daily news, and advice columns; higher education data; career resources, salary data, and job postings. Includes archived issues going back ten years. For archives going back to the 1980s, see The Chronicle of Higher Education in ProQuest. Register to receive email newsletters. Updated daily.
- ERIC.gov This link opens in a new windowThis is an online version of our database ERIC. "ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included."
- Inside Higher Ed"Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education." Inside, you will find "breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees."
- Institute of Education SciencesThe nation's leading source for rigorous, independent education research, evaluation, and statistics.
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Data ToolsThe NCES has datasets concerning K-12 public and private schools, as well as higher education, too.
- National Student ClearinghouseThe National Student Clearinghouse® helps education go further with innovative solutions that meet reporting, research, verification, transcript, and data exchange demands across the K-20 to workforce continuum.
- NCES's Build Your Own Custom Tables and DatasetsThe National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has lots of information available to help you build your own education dataset.
- NCES Bibliography Search ToolThe Bibliography Search Tool allows you to search for individual citations from journal articles that have been published using data from 18 research programs conducted by NCES (click on the icons below for more information on each program). The bibliography is updated continually. The list of citations was derived from computer searches of online bibliographic databases (i.e., EBSCO, JSTOR, EconLit, Dissertation Abstracts), ERIC, as well as the NCES website.
- NCES Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemLots of data from the The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) concerning higher education.
- TEA Laws and RulesThe Texas Education Agency administers the laws and rules that govern education in the state. This page provides information on existing laws and rules, the process by which rules are adopted, and the enforcement of those rules.
- Texas Education Agency (TEA)The TEA's mission is "to provide leadership, guidance and resources to help schools meet the educational needs of all students."
- Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board DataData and reporting are two critical functions of the Coordinating Board, and it is their goal to provide institutions, students, policymakers, and other stakeholders with timely data and analysis so they can make strategic, informed decisions.
- United States Department of Education (ED)"ED was created in 1980 by combining offices from several federal agencies. ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access."
- UTSA's Institutional Research and AnalysisThis site provides filterable dashboards containing UTSA institutional data, including a data request form.