[EDLING:738] Fwd: Education data made available

[Tamara Warhol]

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    Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:53:07 -0400
    From: John Irwin <johni at GSE.UPENN.EDU>
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 Subject: Education data made available
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Demographer's Dream: National Education Web Site Launched

Higher education analysts have a powerful new tool at
their disposal that might help them understand the
demographics of incoming classes of college students.

The National Education Data Partnership, a collaboration
of the Council of Chief State School Officers,
Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Services, Achieve,
Inc., and the CELT Corp., launched SchoolMatters.com,
a web-based national education data service that
provides in-depth information and analysis about
public schools, districts and state education systems.
The Partnership is funded by a $45 million investment
by The Broad Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.

The organizations said the service is the largest
"searchable collection of education performance data
ever assembled," including student achievement
information, financial data and demographic breakdowns,
as well as analytical tools from Standard & Poor's.

For more information visit: http://www.schoolmatters.com

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Tamara Warhol
PhD Student
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu