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National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
National Education Association
Council of Chief State School Officers
EdMoney.org
From the Education Writers Association, this site tracks education spending across the country. Full of data, sources and other helpful research.
Free Online Journal and Research Databases for Academics
Association of School Business Officials
Six Tips for Journalists Covering Teachers Unions
Journalist’s Resource from Harvard offers some great tips.
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of Elementary School Principals
School Nutrition Association
Many helpful resources, including food safety, legislative action, newsroom, recipes, nutritional facts, studies, etc.
Journalist’s Resource: How to Find Academic Research Papers
Seven Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free
The Pulitzer Center and the NY Times built this site to challenge people to “reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation’s foundational date.” Here you will find reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into your classroom.
National Center for Education Statistics Data Center
Nationwide data on colleges and universities.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Tracking Sexual Assault Investigations
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
The Journalist’s Resource: Covering Student Loan Forgiveness
EWA: How to Cover COVID-19 Mandates at Colleges and Universities
Tips and resources from the Education Writers Association.
Chronicle of Higher Education: List of Universities Requiring COVID-19 Vaccinations
New School Journalism + Design: Tools for Educators
GIJN: 5 Things Journalists Need to Know About Statistical Significance
Denise Ordway offers tips to avoid some of the most common errors related to statistical significance in academic studies.
EdWeek: A Student Journalist’s Plea: Stop Censoring Us (and Our Advisers)
Database for tracking financial and money laundering investigations.
Education Writers Association: Coronavirus Coverage
Tracks education coronavirus coverage from around the country, updated daily.
US Dept. of Education: Campus Safety and Security
Download nationwide campus crime data.
Academic Earth
Lectures and teaching resources galore for professors.
How to Tell Good Research from Bad: 13 Questions Journalists Should Ask
Great tipsheet from Harvard’s Journalist’s Resource.
Six Tips for Journalists Covering Teachers Unions
Journalist’s Resource from Harvard offers some great tips.
The Grade
The Grade provides independent analysis of media coverage of education, helping to promote and improve the quality of that coverage. It offers advice on reporting and writing, including profiles and Q&A’s with journalists on how they covered a story. Diversity in both coverage and newsrooms is also a focus.
College COVID-19 Data Dashboards
Google Sheet is a deep collection of links to college dashboards.
Student Debt Crisis Center
Data, expert sources and other resources for covering this issue.
Stop the Presses: Journalism Employment and the Economic Value of 850 Journalism and Communication Programs
2022 study by Georgetown’s Center on Education and Workforce.
The Journalist’s Resource: The Substitute Teacher Shortage
Association of Boarding Schools
National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators
Only a bunch of academics could have a title this long. It’s a good site though, with links of interest and a newsletter.
SchoolFinder.com
Track down Canadian schools.
American Association of University Professors
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
SPJ: Reporter’s Guide to FERPA
Newsweek: America’s Top 100 High Schools
100 Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers
Education Nation Scorecard
This site provides readers “useful, easily understandable information about performance at individual schools, as well as in districts, states, and the nation as a whole.”
Grad Money Matters
Tips on managing money, including top 10 lists. Helpful to journalists looking for tips/graphics to accompany finance stories.
National Center for Education Statistics Data Center
Education Writers Association: Coronavirus Coverage
Tracks education coronavirus coverage from around the country, updated daily.
National Student Clearinghouse
Look up names who’ve graduated from high school. Small fee for service.
CollegeResults.org
Track graduation rates and other data on universities.
NPR: Government Costs for Sending a Kid to School
Civil Rights Data Collection
The Civil Rights Data Collection is a biennial survey required by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights since 1968. It collects data from a universe of all public local educational agencies and schools, including juvenile justice facilities, charter schools, alternative schools and schools serving students with disabilities.
Family Taxpayers Network
Look up teacher salaries at Illinois public schools. Helpful research tool.
Academe Today
Chronicle of Higher Education.
The National Commission on Writing
Reports, press releases and information on writing and education from The College Board.
National Center for Education Stats: School Locator
A great search tool.
Educating School Leaders Report
iThenticate
Check written work for plagiarism and attribution. World’s largest comparison database of professional and scholarly work.
Education Week
Electronic version of the magazine. Daily news updates.
National Institute for Early Education Research
FinAid.org: Basics on College Financial Aid
Year Out Group
Offers resources on taking a year off before college.
Marist Mindset List
This is an annual compilation that offers a glimpse of the world as seen through the eyes of each incoming freshman class at the Wisconsin college.
Taking Off
Offers resources on taking a year off before college.
Washington Post Education Coverage
The National Home Education Research Institute
EduCause
Links to several good stories and education sites.
Coalition for Student and Academic Rights (COSTAR)
A network of lawyers, professors and students aimed at protecting academic rights. Good for finding sources and backgrounding.
Council for Advancement and Support of Education
TeacherTube
Lesson plans, video, etc.
SelectSurf Education Links
Links to several great education sites.
GreatSchools.net
Privately run site covers mostly Arizona and California; may expand to other states.
School Wise Press
Compare California schools by using variables such as test scores and demographics.
National Assessment of Educational Progress
Generation YES: Youth and Educators Succeeding
Several cool projects, including a youth technology mentorship program.
Council of the Great City Schools
Institute of International Education
Scribe
This tool automates the creation of how-to guides via a desktop app or Chrome extension. Users follow a process on the web or in tools they use, this app records clicks and keystrokes and turns it into a guide with text and images. Guides can be shared internally or externally, and embedded in web pages or wikis. This tool is helpful for educators who create digital tools guides, and community- and solutions-focused journalists can speed the document creation process to better help their audiences.
RAND Corporation Education Research
Federally funded documents center has a variety of links, reports and resources on education issues.
Going2College.org
Look up state-specific aid programs for college tuition.
FinAid.org
Online guide to college financial aid.
RateMyProfessors.com
A different kind of teaching evaluation form. Produces some interesting answers.
LessonTutor.com: Study Tools
Great for back-to-school stories, this is a list of study tools for school kids.
AcademicInfo.net Research Resources
Has links on the 9-11 tragedy and other information.
Special Ed News
Focuses on special education and student/teaching needs.
Learning Exchange
News updates, education links and more.
Nonprofitresearch.org
Awards non-profit and philanthropy grants. Site has a publications, newsletters, research and sources page that could be helpful to journalists.
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning
A good links/resource page, state resources and more.
Turnitin.com
A state-by-state breakdown of cybercheating, based on papers tested through Plagiarism.org’s Turnitin.com program.
CollegeSportsScholarships.com
This is an information and resource site for high school athletes who want to apply for college athletic scholarships. Teaches students basic communication skills.
The Youth Free Expression Network (Y-FEN)
An anti-censorship coalition to challenge Internet filters, v-chips, abstinence-only education, etc.
Bullying Online
A UK journalist shares this site, which is based in England but deals with school bullying issues from all over the world. Many reference and tips for parents, administrators, kids, etc.
Scholastic Research Tools: Women’s History
Universities.com
Nearly 5,000 listings of colleges, universities.
Five College Archives Digital Access Project
Women In World History Curriculum
Internet Women’s History Sourcebook
Edutopia.org: George Lucas Educational Foundation
Video library, teacher training, development tools and more.
Teacher Planet
Lesson plans, research, calendar of events and other resources for teachers. Includes some current events and journalism teaching resources.
FinAid.org
Tips, calculators and other student loan information.
Videolectures.net
More than 11,000 lectures searchable by topic, instructor, school, etc.
TeacherVision: History of Presidential Inaugurations
CollegeResults.org
Look up what percentage of a college’s students graduate in four years.
National Association for Sport and Physical Education
National Cheer Safety Foundation
Deals with high school and college cheerleading safety issues.
100 Helpful Web Sites for New Teachers
Inside High Ed: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
News, events, curriculum, etc.
Academia.edu
Displays academics around the world in a tree format, according to what university/department they are affiliated with. It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic Web page.
The Student Newspaper Survival Guide
Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool
Analyze college campus crime statistics with this resource from the Office of Postsecondary Education, part of the U.S. Department of Education.
Open Culture
Free audiobooks, e-books, courses, language lessons, etc.
Class Central
A search engine for finding online classes.
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