Part of the U.S. Department of Education, this is the major educational statistics agency for the U.S. The NCES website provides a variety of helpful statistical tools and resources.

Part of the U.S. Department of Education NCES website, the Nation’s Report Card (NAEP) provides a window into the state of our K-12 education system and what our children are learning using common measures for student achievement.

Part of the U.S. Department of Education NCES website, the Digest of Education Statistics aims to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school.

Part of the U.S. Department of Education NCES website, the Crime and Safety Surveys website stores the data and reports produced by NCES on the topic of school crime and safety.

Part of the U.S. Department of Education NCES website, the EDGE program designs and develops information resources to help understand the social and spatial context of education in the U.S.

Data on educational performance and equity by race and class, kindergarten through college.

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics - This resource compiles information on the U.S. child population from various sources on family characteristics, economic security, health, social environment, educational indicators and more.

The Economist, April 5th, 2014

By Julie L. Hotchkiss and Menbere Shiferaw, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, July/August 2011, 93(4), pp. 243-71.

By Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director of the Pew Hispanic Center (2009).

By Philip N. Cohen, sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.