Data Retreat Supplemental Resources

Data Sources

• Pennsylvania Department of Education
     www.pde.state.pa.us
• School Profiles
     www.paprofiles.org
• PA Accountability System
     www.pde.state.pa.us/pas
• PA Academic Standards
     www.pde.state.pa.us/stateboard_ed/cwp/
       view.asp?a=3&Q=76716&stateboard_edNav=1
• Standard and Poor's School Evaluation Data
     www.ses.standardandpoors.com
• PA School Facts and Figures
        www.psba.org/Research/facts2001.html
• National Center for Education Statistics
     nces.ed.gov
• Common Core of Data
     nces.ed.gov/ccd
• The Nation's (NAEP) Report Card
        nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard
• Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)
     nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass
• Census Bureau
     www.census.gov
• American Fact Finder
         factfinder.census.gov
• Census 2000
     www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html
• Great Schools
     www.greatschools.net
• CAPE Private School Facts
    www.capenet.org/facts.html

Other Information on Data-Driven Decision Making

• National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Library,
  Data-Driven Decision Making
     www.nsdc.org/library/data.html
• North Central Regional Education Laboratory (NCREL)
     www.ncrel.org
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
     www.nwrel.org/scpd
• ENC Online, Data-Driven Decision Making Focus Issues
     www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/data
• The Knowledge Loom
     knowledgeloom.org