Web resources
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Education for All: 2000 (UNESCO) |
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Extensive report on educational reform for 180 individual countries in the 1990s
Population data throughout the 1990s includes total population, marital status, crime, children with handicaps, income and poverty
School data includes enrollment, number of schools, and educational facilities
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EURYBASE: European Community Data Base on Education |
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Extensive descriptive information on the educational systems of EU member countries
Covers from pre-elementary through higher education and special education
Includes statistical data at the end of each section
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GenderStats (World Bank) |
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National-level statistical data on poverty, education, health, labor force, and political participation broken down by gender
Approach data by country and then theme or via the country profiles
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Global Education Database Online (USAID) |
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Includes data from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and USAID's Demographic & Health Surveys
UNESCO data 1970 to 1998, about 200 countries includes three levels of education, educational outcomes (e.g. literacy), life expectancy and population
USAID data 1984 to present, 60 developing countries, includes attendance, gender equity, and educational attainment
Data can be combined to make a country profile
Data can be downloaded in html, Excel spreadsheet or Word table
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International Archive of Education Data (ICPSR) |
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To provide user-friendly interface to cross tabulations of microdata from the National Center for Education Statistics
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International Comparisons of Education |
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Reports, data bases, studies and speeches on educational achievement in participating studies
Subjects include math, reading, science, civic education, and adult literacy
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Millennium Indicators (United Nations) |
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Forty-eight social and economic indicators for 197 countries annually, 1985-2000
Includes carbon dioxide emissions, immunizations, AIDS, education, illiteracy, mortality, malnutrition, forested lands, sanitation, water and telephone lines
Data accessed by name of country
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OECD Education Data Base |
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Statistics on educational finance, enrollment and personnel since 1985 for OECD countries
Countries include Europe, Japan, Australia, United States, Canada, and Mexico
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OECD Programme for International Student Assessment |
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Country data on student performance in reading, mathematics, and science for the industrialized nations (Europe, Japan, Australia, U.S. Canada, New Zealand
Learning for Tomorrow's World includes provides spreadsheets and pdf files of the 2003 data
Analyzes factors such as gender equity
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Open Doors-Study Abroad |
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Annual statistics on foreign students studying in the U.S. and U.S. students studying abroad
Includes where they go, field, international students by state, length of stay
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UNESCO Database |
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Time series of education, culture, and communication statistics for regions and countries of the world
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Reference works
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The International encyclopedia of education |
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Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: LB15 .I569 1994
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World list of universities and other institutions of higher education. |
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Reference Collection - 1st Level North
Call Number: L900 .I57
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