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National School Report

Arranged by county with composite statistics for individual school districts
School population, student-teacher raiot, average elementary and secondary class size, computers in elementary schools, percent of high school students going to college

National School Safety Center

Promotes safe school strategies
Numerous publications for purchase
School-Associated Violent Deaths (pdf)
- List of individual school-associated murders since September 1992

NationMaster

Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of social, economic and cultural statistics
Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion, transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health, education, economics, marriage rate
Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top 100 to the bottom 5
Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle East

NCES Working Papers

Nellie Mae

Undergraduate and graduate student loan information and interest rates for repayment
Includes EXCEL, GradEXCEL, Federal Plus Loans, and Federal Stafford Loans

No Child Left Behind (Education Dept)

Bush Administration to improve schools through stronger accountability, local choice, parental choice, tests, and better teachers
Program achievements are available state-by-state
The primary gauge for the program's success is the School Matters web site, which provides test data

OECD Education Database

Statistics on educational finance, enrollment and personnel since 1985 for OECD countries
Countries include Europe, Japan, Australia, United States, Canada, and Mexico
Interactive search engine with pulldown menus
Results in ASCII, data base, or spreadsheet format

OECD Foreign Students

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment

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

Open Doors

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