NYS Education Department
WCSD Report Cards

• The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement http://www.centerforcsri.org - Includes a School Reform and Improvement Database.
  
• The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com
  
• dataMentor http://www.datamentor.org - School level assessment information (password required)
• Developing Educational Standards http://edstandards.org/Standards.html - Links to and brief comments about web site that present, use, or critique educational standards
• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org - Links to jearly 4000 online journals, many with free access. Searchable. "Education" is a subcategory of "Social Sciences."
  
• Education and the Public Interest Center http://www.epicpolicy.org - Briefs, research, reviews on educational policy.
  
• Education Policy Analysis Archives http://epaa.asu.edu - An online professional journal with articles about educational issues in both the US and in other countries.
  
• Education Week http://www.edweek.org
• Educause Review http://connect.educause.edu/er & Educause Quarterly http://connect.educause.edu/eq - Information technology from a collegiate perspective
  
• Electric Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education http://ejite.isu.edu - A variety of journal articles about elementary/secondary technology integration
  
• FairTest http://fairtest.org - The National Center for Fair and Open Testing casts a critical eye on standized testing
  
• Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com - A search engine for scholarly articles
• HyperStat Online http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat - A free, online statistics text
• The Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment http://escholarship.bc.edu/jtla - The title of this quarterly journal tells it all.
  
• Just for the Kids http://www.just4kids.org/ - Sponsored by the National Center for Educational Accountability, the site contains comparative reports on districts and schools.
• National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing http://www.cresst.org - Reports, newsletters, policy briefs, a parents page, a teachers page from educational researchers at UCLA.
  
• Phi Delta Kappan http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kappan.htm - Online version of the PDK monthly magazine. Parts of it require PDK membership.
  
• Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation http://pareonline.net/Home.htm - An online professional journal containing "refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching..."
  
• SchoolMatters http://SchoolMatters.com - A collaboration of the Council of Chief Sate School Officers, Standard and Poor's School Evaluation Services, the CELT Corporation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It presents ssessment information by state, district, and school.
• Statistical Literacy http://www.statlit.org - "Statistical literacy is the ability to read and interpret statistics in everyday graphs, tables, statements and studies."
  
• Usable Knowledge http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html - Created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to connect research and instructional  practice, one of its good sections is called "Decisions Through Data."
• What Works Clearinghouse http://www.whatworks.ed.gov - The US Department of Education's view of what educational research says about different instructional terchniques