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Useful Education Research Links

ERIC System home page
Description: The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge.

U.S. Census Bureau
America Fact Finder (including mapping functions).

Federal Education Budget Project (New America Foundation)
View in-depth data and in-house analyses of federal financing--at both the state and district level--for education and training.  To carry out your own analyses, use the Researcher Download Function to pull data for a particular state or the entire country.

Educational Needs Index
The Educational Needs Index (ENI) is a study of educational, economic, and population pressures that influence educational policy and planning. ENI 2.0 is the 2nd iteration of the study and uses Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) as opposed to county boundaries for analysis and comparison. PUMAs are the smallest units of analysis provided by the 2005 American Community Survey.

Kentucky Department of Education
Achievement data can be downloaded from here.  Demographic data and some finance data from here.

Colleagues, Allies, and Friends

The Rural School and Community Trust
The Rural School and Community Trust is a national nonprofit organization addressing the crucial relationship between good schools and thriving communities. Our mission is to help rural schools and communities get better together.
Working in some of the poorest, most challenging places, the Rural Trust involves young people in learning linked to their communities, improves the quality of teaching and school leadership, and advocates in a variety of ways for appropriate state educational policies, including the key issue of equitable and adequate funding for rural schools.

Advocates for Community and Rural Education (ACRE)
Advocates for Community and Rural Education (ACRE) is an Arkansas grassroots organization with the following mission and goals: (1) to preserve and promote rural and community schools, (2) to educate the public about the role and value of rural and community schools, (3) to organize community members to support their schools, and (4) to share the successes of rural and community schools.

Southern Echo
Southern Echo is a leadership education, training and development organization founded in 1989 and based in Jackson, Mississippi. Echo is committed to building new, accountable grassroots leadership and organization, based on an inter-generational model, through training, technical and legal assistance. Echo staff works with and in support of African-American and working class community leadership and organizations throughout rural Mississippi, and organizations in 11 other Southern states.

The Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM)
The Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM) will build a mathematics infrastructure in the Appalachian regions of Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia, providing a model and resources for other isolated, rural, poverty-stricken areas across the country. The two primary goals of ACCLAIM in these Appalachian regions are to (1) build mathematics capacity and expertise through advanced degree programs in mathematics, job-embedded professional development for middle and high school mathematics, and research that connects mathematics and rural education, and (2) improve the quality of mathematics teacher education programs and mathematics teaching at the middle and high school levels in these Appalachian regions through the development of collaborative networks and innovative delivery systems.