National Education Statistics

National Center for Education Statistics
Daniel Ramnath
http://nces.ed.gov/

This government created website is was located from the master directory of http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/education/index.html#first. This Harvard bases website included links to not only the NCES but the Department of Education, Fed Stats, Census Bureau, National Education Association, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. The website is very well organized and provides multiple tools to access the information you are looking for. The Washington D.C. centered database contains articles and headlines about what is going on in the education community. Within the website there is also a most viewed sites tab that allows surfers to view the different sites that the site offers. Such sites as publication products, school searches, demographic systems and the nation’s report card.
The publications and products tab at the top leads you to a search engine for anything from books DVD’s and articles to data files, handbooks and videos. The survey and programs tabs show a variety of tests assessments and resources to pull information from students that would be needed to fulfill the ASSURE model requirement. As for the Data Tools and Tables and Figures tab respectively, these tabs encompass school navigators and endless charts and graphs of information on schools all across the country and at all levels. The last three tabs of fast facts, school searches and annual reports provide much of the same information except for annual reports which displays statistics in year periods. Not all information is accessible to the public, but the amount of info that is more than overwhelming.