EDUC 3088: Senior Research Seminar

Holdings in institutional history and scholarship in education, psychology, and health professions.

Acquired from city agencies, the Archives hold the records depicting the daily work of city government, including paper records, digital collections, web archives, still and moving images, ledgers and docket books, vital records, cartographic materials, blueprints, and sound recordings.

Provides access to digitized collections and finding aids to other collections held at NYPL.

Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.

Features access to NARA materials and links to state archives and other collaborating institutions, and digital collections on various aspects of United States History.

EdStats from the World Bank tracks internationally comparable indicators that describe education access, progression, completion, literacy, teachers, population, and expenditures. The indicators cover the education cycle from pre-primary to vocational and tertiary education.

Measure of America provides easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America and stimulating fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and living standards.
The hallmark of this work is the American Human Development Index, an alternative to GDP and other money metrics that tells the story of how ordinary Americans are faring and empowers communities with a tool to track progress over time. The Index is comprised of health, education, and income indicators and allows for well-being rankings of the 50 states, 436 congressional districts, county groups within states, women and men, and racial and ethnic groups. Through national and state reports, thematic briefs, and interactive websites such as DATA2GO.NYC, Measure of America aims to breathe life into numbers, using data to create compelling narratives that foster greater understanding of our shared challenges and greater support for people-centered policies.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity collecting and analyzing data related to education. It provides includes many resources, including the Digest of Education Statistics and State Education Data Profiles.

The New York City Department of Education makes available a variety of data about NYC schools and students, including test results, graduation results, demographic information, enrollment and attendence rates, New York State Report Cards, and School Quality Reports.

Data sets on individual schools and districts in New York, including New York City

Need even more data sources? Check out the Barnard Library Social Science Data & Statistics Sources guide.