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Special Education
This guide was created to assist the professors and students focusing on special education within the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching.
UTSA Databases
UTSA Libraries subscribes to a numbers of statistsical databses that might be useful to you.
Data Resources
There is a tremendous amount of educational data and statistics available on the internet - and here are some reputable places to search. If you have suggestions of other sites I am missing, please email me at rachel.cannady@utsa.edu.
- American Institutes for Research (AIR)AIR has an Education Program that "connect[s] rigorous research, policy, and practice to support and improve education."
- Census School EnrollmentContains enrollment figures for K - 16 across the United States.
- ED Data ExpressED Data Express is "designed to improve the public's ability to access and explore high-value state-level education data collected by the U.S. Department of Education." It is about both elementary and secondary schools in the U.S.
- Education Commission of the States (ECS) - Special EducationThese are a series or reports and data on Special education in the United States.
- Measure of AmericaUsers can find state-level educational attainment data with the interactive map from the American Human development project website.
- National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)The Center focuses on how K-12 teacher policies, governance policies, and social and economic community conditions affect outcomes for teachers and their students. More recently, the Center has extended its work to post-secondary education and labor market outcomes.
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Tables and FiguresIf you know the name of the table that you need from NCES, this search box is a shortcut.
- National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)"The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) conducts and communicates research to support high-quality, effective early childhood education for all young children."
- NCES Data ToolsThe NCES has datasets concerning K-12 public and private schools, as well as higher education, too.
- Pew Research Center - Education"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. [They] conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. "
- Texas Education Research Center (Texas ERC)"The Texas Education Research Center (Texas ERC) is a research center and data clearinghouse providing access to longitudinal, student-level data for scientific inquiry and policy-making purposes."
- Texas Public Schools ExplorerThe Texas public schools database can help you "learn more about the state’s 1,219 districts and 8,646 public schools, including hundreds of charter schools and alternative campuses. You can easily navigate through information on demographics, academic performance, college readiness and average teacher salaries for each school or district."
- Urban Education in AmericaThis site is designed for persons who are interested in educational changes taking place in urban America. This site provides access to recent data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), as well as the Census Bureau.
