Government Documents: Education

United States Department of Education, which is dedicated to eduction financial aid, collecting data on american schools, ensuring equal access to education, and promoting awareness of key issues in education.

Website for the Department of Education's Office of Financial Aid. Helps students understand, apply for and manage financial aid for education.

Provides "access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice, including resources that can be shared with families."

"OPE works to strengthen the capacity of colleges and universities to promote reform, innovation and improvement in postsecondary education, promote and expand access to postsecondary education and increase college completion rates for America’s students, and broaden global competencies that drive the economic success and competitiveness of our Nation."

Provides resources for families, students, and school leaders.

Website that allows users to search through many government websites for information on many different topics, including those related to education.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides links to several resources containing data or statistics on child development.

"The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations."

"Child Trends is the nation’s leading research organization focused exclusively on improving the lives of children and youth, especially those who are most vulnerable." A nonprofit that gathers information from many sources, including government entities

"NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis."

"The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (Forum) is a collection of 23 Federal government agencies involved in research and activities related to children and families."

"The largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing. Standard administration practices are implemented to provide a common measure of student achievement."

Government data sets from many agencies and departments, including those related to education research.

Abstracts and some free online research articles about education. Contains information on published journal articles and government reports.

" This web site is intended to help you identify and order the U.S. Department of Education (ED) products. All publications are provided at no cost to the general public. ED Pubs offer a variety of products in many formats ranging from brochures, CD–ROMs, grant applications, newsletters, posters, research reports, and more." Some documents are freely available electronically.

General website that allows users to search for government publications on many different topics, including education.

Provides datasets and citations of studies that provide evidence of "what works" for education policies, practices and products.