EdD-School Improvement

All public schools in Texas, including charter schools, with accountability rating (met standard, improvement required, not rated), indexes, and distinctions. Listed by school district name. Innovation Academy is listed under UT Tyler Innovation Academy.

Texas Administrative Code, Title 19, part 7, chapter 247, rule 247.2

subject area reviews, TEKS by chapter, English language proficiency standards, prekindergarten guidelines, Texas college readiness standards, TEKS in Spanish, TEKS by grade level (elementary)

"supports schools in meeting the educational needs of all students by providing a means for schools to share information about evidence-based best practices." Searchable by Evidence Type, District/Campus Type, and Topic Area.

Information on PACT (Pre-Admission Content Testing), TExES (Teacher Examinations of Educator Standards), TExMaT (Texas Examinations of Master Teachers, TASC and TASC-ASL (Texas Assessment of Sign Communication), ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), and AAFCS (American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences).

Minimum salaries for Texas classroom teachers, full-time librarians, full-time counselors and full-time school nurses.

Links to two free employment websites for those seeking jobs with Texas school districts and charters.

Statistics, policies, resources, programs

Programs and requirements

Links to Texas Education Code, TEA Administrative Rules, proposed State Board of Education Rules, Special Education laws dictated by federal law

Links to parent resources, teacher resources, released tests, results, scoring, special education assessments, STAAR, TAKS and TELPAS.

-Educational Technology page, including Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020; online professional development, tools, and resources; funding and grants, and other information and resources.

Find information here from the U.S. Department of Education on topics ranging from policy to financial aid to statistics.

A part of the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, the NCES is the primary agency in charge of collecting and analyzing education statistics and data. You can get a variety of reports and statistics here.

This is the federal government website of the education research database. Notice that the library makes this database available via EBSCO as well. You can access that from the "Find an Article" page in this guide. Or you can use this website.
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

The Census Bureau is the primary agency collecting and analyzing data about people and the economy for the nation. Use the A-Z subject link, choose "Education" to find various statistics and items of interest.
You can also use the search box to type a topic and see if the Census has covered it. For example, try searching for "educational attainment." If you do this, set the search to search the Census website (not the FAQs).

Published by the Census Bureau, it is "the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States." Includes lots of education statistics. A good starting point for statistics up through 2011, when it was terminated due to lack of funds.

This is "a global network of more than 450 advising centers supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. " It is basically a higher education guide for international students. Worth a look.

Sponsored by the U.S. DOE, provides more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. According to the site, "FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by contributing federal agencies." Note that you can subscribe to the site's RSS and get updates if you use a feed reader.

In addition to information about their grants and funding, many of their reports, including some in education, are freely available on the website. NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

Since 1960, Grapevine has published annual compilations of data on state tax support for higher education, including general fund appropriations for universities, colleges, community colleges, and state higher education agencies. Each year’s Grapevine survey has asked states for tax appropriations data for the new fiscal year and for revisions (if any) to data reported in previous years. This resource is produced by Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Education Policy in cooperation with the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO).