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This data can be used to study the characteristics (linguistics or otherwise) of fake vs real reviews and to assess proposed fake review detection methods.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "text data" ], "unit": "Other", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Explorer", "link": "https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/home", "description": "\"The FBI's Crime Data Explorer (CDE) aims to provide transparency, create easier access, and expand awareness of criminal, and noncriminal, law enforcement data sharing; improve accountability for law enforcement; and provide a foundation to help shape public policy with the result of a safer nation. 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The main feature is a keyword search in the article's titles and abstracts. It returns a list with links to the articles on their journal websites and some estimates of the sizes of data files and relevant code files. By default only articles are included that have a data or code supplement.\"", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "replication data" ], "unit": "Other", "access": "Open download", "kind": "List of sources", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "FiveThirtyEight Data", "link": "https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/", "description": "\"We’re sharing the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "elections & politics", "general" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Repository", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Florida PK-12 Public School Data Publications and Reports", "link": "https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/data-sys/edu-info-accountability-services/pk-12-public-school-data-pubs-reports/", "description": "Public data files from the Florida Department of Education", "geography": "US state", "place": "FL", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Gapminder", "link": "https://www.gapminder.org/data/", "description": "\"Most of our data are not good enough for detailed numeric analysis.\" Gapminder combines data from multiple sources into unique coherent time-series that can’t be found elsewhere.", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "economics", "health" ], "unit": "Country", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse", "link": "https://wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/data/data_and_documentation/", "description": "\"The data warehouse includes four databases: 1) Wealth Topography; 2) Wealth Inequality Trends; 3) Estate, Inheritance, and Gift Taxes: and 4) Inheritance Trends\"", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "economics" ], "unit": "Country", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Harvard Dataverse", "link": "https://dataverse.harvard.edu/", "description": "Various; \"Harvard Dataverse is a repository for research data.\"", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "replication data", "general" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "Repository", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Idaho School Accountability Data", "link": "https://www.idahoreportcard.org/datafiles", "description": "\"The Accountability program staff prepares performance reports and provides technical support to districts and schools. Staff also establishes business rules and identifies schools in need with internal and external stakeholders.\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "ID", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "accountability & report cards" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "IHE Program-Level Debt and Earnings Outcomes", "link": "https://robertkelchen.com/2023/01/19/sharing-a-dataset-of-program-level-debt-and-earnings-outcomes/", "description": "Assembled and shared by Robert Kelchen; \"The resulting dataset covers 45,971 programs at 5,033 institutions with data on both student debt and earnings for those same cohorts.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "Postsecondary", "topics": [ "postsecondary outcomes", "labor market & earnings" ], "unit": "Program", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Illinois Educator Pipeline Data", "link": "https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Data.aspx", "description": "\"Explore ISBE's data collections and analysis addressing the teacher shortage and teacher pipeline in Illinois.​\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "IL", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators" ], "unit": "District", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Illinois Educator Supply and Demand Data", "link": "https://www.isbe.net/Pages/EdSupplyDemand.aspx", "description": "\"This page ​contains enhancements for the triennial Educator Supply and Demand Report required per School Code [105 ILCS 5/2-3.11c]. The data here addresses the relative supply and demand for education staff in Illinois public schools. The PDF version of the reports can also be found below. The data is sourced from ISBE, the Employee Information System (EIS), Educator Licensure Information System (ELIS), and Student Information System (SIS). Those data collections and surveys collect data from school districts throughout the state on at least an annual basis and much more frequently in some cases. Specifically, this data provides information on: the relative supply and demand for teachers, administrators, and other licensed and non-licensed personnel by field, content area, and levels; state and regional analyses of fields, content areas, and levels with an over/undersupply of educators; and projections of likely high/low demand for educators in a manner sufficient to advise the public, individuals, and institutions regarding career opportunities in education.​​\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "IL", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators" ], "unit": "State", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Illinois School Discipline Data", "link": "https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Expulsions-Suspensions-and-Truants-by-District.aspx", "description": "Suspension, expulsion, and truancy counts for Illinois districts, from the Illinois State Board of Education.", "geography": "US state", "place": "IL", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "discipline & climate" ], "unit": "District", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Illinois State Board of Education Report Card Data Library", "link": "https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Illinois-State-Report-Card-Data.aspx", "description": "School- and district level data in IL", "geography": "US state", "place": "IL", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "accountability & report cards", "achievement & assessment", "enrollment & demographics" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Income Distributions and Dynamics in America: Data Center", "link": "https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america/data-center", "description": "The Income Distributions and Dynamics in America project seeks to foster new research and analysis on income disparities by providing statistics on income percentiles, shares, growth rates, persistence, and more for many U.S. demographic groups at national and state levels.", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "economics" ], "unit": "State", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Indiana Department of Education Data center & Reports", "link": "https://www.in.gov/doe/it/data-center-and-reports/", "description": "\"This site provides information about performance and progress of Indiana schools. \"", "geography": "US state", "place": "IN", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)", "link": "https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data", "description": "Data on institutions of higher education in the United States, including enrollment, financial aid, degree completion, etc.", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "Postsecondary", "topics": [ "enrollment & demographics", "postsecondary outcomes", "finance" ], "unit": "Institution", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": true, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "IPPSR Correlates of State Policy", "link": "http://ippsr.msu.edu/public-policy/correlates-state-policy", "description": "The Correlates of State Policy Project includes more than 900 variables, with observations across the 50 U.S. states and across time (1900–2016, approximately). These variables represent policy outputs or political, social, or economic factors that may influence policy differences.", "geography": "US state", "place": "All states", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "policy", "elections & politics" ], "unit": "State", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "IPUMS", "link": "https://ipums.org/", "description": "Census and survey data from around the world.", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "enrollment & demographics", "labor market & earnings" ], "unit": "Individual", "access": "Free registration", "kind": "Data portal", "start": true, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Kaggle Datasets", "link": "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets", "description": "Various", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Free registration", "kind": "Repository", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Kentucky School Personnel Information", "link": "https://www.education.ky.gov/districts/FinRept/Pages/School%20District%20Personnel%20Information.aspx", "description": "\"Here you can find information on school district staffing, certified and classified salaries and job descriptions.", "geography": "US state", "place": "KY", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators", "finance" ], "unit": "District", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Kentucky School Report Card Datasets", "link": "https://reportcard.kyschools.us/data-download?pid=c340f7d5-efbd-5fb8-cab8-3a128835f84c", "description": "Downloadable datasets associated with school report cards.", "geography": "US state", "place": "KY", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "accountability & report cards" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)", "link": "https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/law-enforcement-management-and-administrative-statistics-lemas", "description": "From the Bureau of Justice Statistics: \"Conducted periodically since 1987, the LEMAS core collects data from over 3,000 general purpose, county, and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more full-time sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies. Data are obtained on agency responsibilities, operating expenditures, job functions of sworn and civilian employees, officer salaries and special pay, demographic characteristics of officers, weapons and armor policies, education and training requirements, computers and information systems, vehicles, special units, and community policing activities.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "crime & justice" ], "unit": "Other", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Maryland School Public Use Data for Download", "link": "https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/DataDownloads//3/17/6/17/6/2024", "description": "From the Maryland State Department of Education", "geography": "US state", "place": "MD", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "accountability & report cards" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Data Reports", "link": "https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/", "description": "Statewide and school and district data.", "geography": "US state", "place": "MA", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data tool or dashboard", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database", "link": "https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/icpsr/posts/shared/measures-of-effective-teaching-met-longitudinal-database", "description": "\"This site enables users to apply for access to quantitative data and classroom videos created by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Use of the MET Longitudinal Database is offered to approved researchers via a remote access system.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators", "achievement & assessment" ], "unit": "Individual", "access": "Application or restricted", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Michigan Education Data Center (MEDC)", "link": "https://medc.miedresearch.org/", "description": "\"The Michigan Education Data Center (MEDC) is a secure data clearinghouse that helps researchers use Michigan’s education data to answer critical questions that improve outcomes for students.\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "MI", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "Individual", "access": "Application or restricted", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Minnesota Department of Education Data Reports and Analytics", "link": "https://education.mn.gov/mde/data/", "description": "Data on Minnesota students and schools.", "geography": "US state", "place": "MN", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Minnesota Professional Educator and Licensing Data", "link": "https://mn.gov/pelsb/board/data/", "description": "\"PELSB’s online reports provide data on all licensed educators (teachers, administrators, related services and non-instructional personnel), related to tier level, licensure area, district, region, and other demographic information. This data comes from two primary sources: license applications and Staff Automated Reporting (STAR). For information on PELSB's collection and sharing policies, please see our Data Collection and Data Sharing Policies document.\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "MN", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators" ], "unit": "District", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Mostly Harmless Econometrics Data Archive", "link": "https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/josh-angrist/mhe-data-archive", "description": "\"Data and programs from Mostly Harmless Econometrics\"", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "replication data" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Myers Abortion Facility Database", "link": "https://osf.io/8dg7r/", "description": "\"Public data include a county-by-month panel of travel distances to the nearest U.S. abortion provider from January 2009 through December 2022. Researchers can apply for restricted data identifying abortion facilities.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "health" ], "unit": "County or local", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Data Sets", "link": "https://seer.cancer.gov/data-software/datasets.html", "description": "\"The SEER research data include SEER incidence and population data associated by age, sex, race, year of diagnosis, and geographic areas (including SEER registry and county). SEER releases new research data every Spring based on the previous November’s submission of data. Use SEER data to address multiple topics; for example, you can: Examine stage at diagnosis by race/ethnicity Calculate survival by stage at diagnosis, age at diagnosis, and tumor grade or size. Determine trends and incidence rates for various cancer sites over time.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "health" ], "unit": "County or local", "access": "Free registration", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "National Council on Teacher Quality", "link": "https://www.nctq.org", "description": "Various teacher-related databases either available to download or available upon request.", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators", "policy" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "National Education Research Database on Schools (NERD$)", "link": "https://edunomicslab.org/nerds/", "description": "School-level finance data.", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "finance" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": true, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "National Household Education Surveys Program Data Products", "link": "https://nces.ed.gov/nhes/dataproducts.asp", "description": "Since its inception in 1991, the NHES has fielded topical survey modules about early childhood care and education, children's readiness for school, parents' perceptions of school safety and discipline, before- and after-school activities of school-age children, participation in adult and career education, parents' involvement in their children's education, school choice, homeschooling, and civic involvement. Since 2007, the NHES has focused on four main topics: young children's care and education before school , participation in adult training and education, parents' involvement in their children's education–including school choice–and homeschooling.", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "Multiple levels", "topics": [ "surveys", "early childhood", "school choice" ], "unit": "Individual", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "National Longitudinal School Database", "link": "https://reachcentered.org/publications/national-longitudinal-school-database", "description": "The National Longitudinal School Database (NLSD) was created by the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH) to allow researchers to examine various aspects of traditional public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and private schools.", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "school choice", "enrollment & demographics" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Not yet checked", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "NCES Data Lab", "link": "https://nces.ed.gov/datalab/index.aspx", "description": "Various federal education data", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "Multiple levels", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "Data tool or dashboard", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "NCES Online Codebook", "link": "https://nces.ed.gov/OnlineCodebook", "description": "Tool to explore federal education data sets, including older data.", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "Multiple levels", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "Data tool or dashboard", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "NCTQ District Policy Pathfinder", "link": "https://www.nctq.org/district-policy-pathfinder/", "description": "\"District Policy Pathfinder aims to address these challenges. Pathfinder, formerly the NCTQ Teacher Contract Database, brings together curated, standardized, and verified datasets for 133 large school districts with 112 metrics across seven policy topic areas such as teacher salaries, collective bargaining and contracts, teacher benefits, evaluation, and more. \n\n\nThe data is structured to support cross-district comparisons and longitudinal analysis going back to 2014-15 on key metrics. The data is transparently coded and documented with a clear, consistent methodology, making it easier to verify. With new data released annually, the sample will continue to grow.\n\n\nResearchers can download directly from the Explore the Data tool and export to CSV for use in Stata, R, Python, or other analytic tools. A full data dictionary details answer options and definitions for each metric. Datasets are designed to integrate with other sources, and even include NCES IDs, to extend your analysis.\"", "geography": "US local", "place": "133 large districts", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators", "finance", "policy" ], "unit": "District", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "New York State Education Department Data Downloads", "link": "https://data.nysed.gov/downloads.php", "description": "Data on schools in New York state.", "geography": "US state", "place": "NY", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "NYC Open Data", "link": "https://www.nyc.gov/opendata", "description": "\"Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners.\"", "geography": "US local", "place": "NYC", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "NYC Public Schools Infohub", "link": "https://infohub.nyced.org/", "description": "Reports and downloadable data files on New York City schools.", "geography": "US local", "place": "NYC", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "OECD Education Datasets", "link": "https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets.html?orderBy=mostRelevant&page=0&facetTags=oecd-languages%3Aen%2Coecd-policy-areas%3Apa6", "description": "OECD's education datasets, including the Education at a Glance indicators on learning outcomes, resources, access to education, and the learning environment.", "geography": "International", "place": "OECD countries", "level": "Multiple levels", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "Country", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), US Department of Education", "link": "https://www.ed.gov/about/ed-offices/osers/osep", "description": "Data on the provision of special education services (e.g., SPED personnel).", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "special education", "staffing & educators" ], "unit": "State", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Ohio School Report Card Data Downloads", "link": "https://reportcard.education.ohio.gov/download", "description": "\"Data is available for all schools and districts in Microsoft Excel format.\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "OH", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "accountability & report cards" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Oklahoma School Report Card Data Download", "link": "https://oklaschools.com/download-data/", "description": "Downloadable datasets associated with school report cards.", "geography": "US state", "place": "OK", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "accountability & report cards" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "OpenElections Data Repository", "link": "https://github.com/openelections", "description": "\"The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election results data for the United States.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "elections & politics" ], "unit": "Other", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Repository", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Our World in Data", "link": "https://ourworldindata.org/", "description": "Various", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "Country", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "PEERS Data Hub", "link": "https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/peersdatahub/home", "description": "STEM education-related data with \"both restricted and public-use data files that can be used for quantitative and qualitative analysis. Search through the archives by topic, variable, or title.\"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "Multiple levels", "topics": [ "achievement & assessment", "postsecondary outcomes" ], "unit": "Individual", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "Repository", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Pennsylvania Department of Education Data and Reporting", "link": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/education/data-and-reporting", "description": "\"The Pennsylvania Department of Education compiles and analyzes a wide variety of data about attendance, graduation rates, schools and school districts, student progress, transportation, and other information.\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "PA", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Pew Research Center Datasets", "link": "https://www.pewresearch.org/datasets/", "description": "\"Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time.\"", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "surveys" ], "unit": "Individual", "access": "Free registration", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Programme for International Student Assessment", "link": "https://www.oecd.org/pisa/data/", "description": "\"The PISA database contains the full set of responses from individual students, school principals and parents.\"", "geography": "International", "place": "OECD and partner countries", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "achievement & assessment", "surveys" ], "unit": "Individual", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Publicly Available Data in Sociology", "link": "https://class.unt.edu/sociology/forms-and-resources/survey-datasets.html", "description": "List of publicly available survey datasets from the University of North Texas Department of Sociology, compiled with help from Miles Brickell.", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "surveys", "general" ], "unit": "Varies", "access": "Mixed", "kind": "List of sources", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Replication Data for: Do Male and Female Legislators Have Different Twitter Communication Styles?", "link": "https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/MHAAZV", "description": "\"a dataset with nearly 4 million tweets by all American state legislators, coded for topic and ideology through supervised learning\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "All states", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "elections & politics", "text data" ], "unit": "Other", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Rhode Island Education Data", "link": "https://ride.ri.gov/information-accountability/ri-education-data", "description": "\"We have developed many tools to provide education data to families, educators, policymakers, and the public at large.\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "RI", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Rhode Island Educator Vacancy Data", "link": "https://ecert.ride.ri.gov/vacancy", "description": "\"Educator Vacancy data provides information regarding unfilled positions in RI's LEAs and schools. \"", "geography": "US state", "place": "RI", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Rhode Island Report Card Datasets", "link": "https://reportcard.ride.ri.gov/Researcher", "description": "\"This page allows you to customize your view by selecting the school year, level of data and the datasets that you would to include. Once you make your selections, click on the 'Build' button for your customized view.\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "RI", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "accountability & report cards" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "School Finance Indicators Database", "link": "https://schoolfinancedata.org/", "description": "\"a collection of sophisticated school finance measures for assessing the adequacy and fairness of each state’s revenue, spending, and resource allocation, and for comparing these outcomes between states and over time\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "All states", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "finance" ], "unit": "State", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "The Social Determinants of Health Project", "link": "https://sdohplace.org/", "description": "\"Finding data about the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and community context is tough. The data is often scattered, hard to find, and takes time to learn how to use, especially when it involves integrating geospatial data and then transforming for analysis and communications. The SDOH & Place Project was created to make this process easier. A human-centered design approach centers everything we do around the diverse range of people who need access to this critical SDOH data. With a multidisciplinary team, we’ve crafted multiple resources to help researchers and advocates to explore and understand SDOH data and generate high impact research and advocacy centered in health equity. \"", "geography": "US national", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "health" ], "unit": "County or local", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG)", "link": "https://www.devdatalab.org/shrug", "description": "\"an open access repository currently comprising dozens of datasets covering India’s over 500,000 villages and 8000 towns over a span of 25 years, all linked together with a set of common geographic identifiers\"", "geography": "International", "place": "India", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "economics" ], "unit": "County or local", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "South Dakota Department of Education Statistical Digest", "link": "https://doe.sd.gov/ofm/statdigest.aspx", "description": "School profile data; see also glossary of included terms: https://doe.sd.gov/ofm/documents/Glossary.pdf", "geography": "US state", "place": "SD", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "District", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Dataset", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "South Dakota Instructional Staff Turnover and Vacancy", "link": "https://doe.sd.gov/data/district-turnover.aspx", "description": "\"This multi-year dashboard provides the amount of Full-Time Employee (FTE) Instructional Staff positions resulting from turnover in South Dakota public districts. It also shows what FTE remain vacant at the beginning of the following year. 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Data are organized to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including health status indicators to monitor progress towards for the overall health goal, indicators to track equity in health indicators, and the indicators for the specific health and health-related targets of the SDGs.\"", "geography": "Global/mixed", "place": "", "level": "General (not education-specific)", "topics": [ "health" ], "unit": "Country", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "Moved (link updated)", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Data & Media", "link": "https://dpi.wi.gov/data-media", "description": "See options under \"Data Submission and Reporting\"", "geography": "US state", "place": "WI", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "general" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data portal", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Public Staff Reporting", "link": "https://publicstaffreports.dpi.wi.gov/PubStaffReport/Public/PublicReport", "description": "Public reports on staff in Wisconsin public schools, from the Department of Public Instruction.", "geography": "US state", "place": "WI", "level": "K-12", "topics": [ "staffing & educators" ], "unit": "School", "access": "Open download", "kind": "Data tool or dashboard", "start": false, "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Wyoming School District Enrollment & Staffing Data", "link": "https://edu.wyoming.gov/data/school-district-enrollment-and-staffing-data/", "description": "\"This publication provides data about school district staff, average salaries of staff by various classifications, and information on students related to enrollment by grade, gender and ethnicity. 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It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological 'nuts and bolts' of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation\"", "type": "Writing guide", "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Applied Regression Using Stata", "link": "https://sites.uci.edu/gduncan/applied-regression-class-2021/", "description": "UC Irvine course from Greg Duncan and Paul Yoo.", "type": "Course materials", "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Causal Inference: The Mixtape", "link": "https://mixtape.scunning.com/", "description": "Free online version of textbook", "type": "Textbook", "status": "OK", "checked": "2026-10-22" }, { "name": "Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide", "link": "https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml", "description": "by Matthew Gentzkow & Jesse M. 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