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The Forum Guide to Data Ethics
While laws set the legal parameters that govern data use, ethics
establish fundamental principles of "right and wrong" that are critical to the appropriate
management and use of education data in the technology age. This guide reflects the
experience and judgment of experienced data managers; while there is no mandate to
follow these principles, the authors hope that the contents will prove a useful reference
to others in their work.
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Crisis Data Management: A Forum Guide to Collecting and Managing Data About Displaced Students
Provides guidelines that can be used by elementary and secondary education agencies to establish policies and procedures for collecting and managing education data before, during, and after a crisis.
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Educational Technology in Public School Districts: Fall 2008
This First Look report presents data from a fall 2008 district Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) survey on the availability and use of educational technology. This includes information on networks and Internet capacity, technology policies, district-provided resources, teacher professional development, and district-level leadership for technology.
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Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2009
A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools. This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime Victimization Survey, the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the School Survey on Crime and Safety and the School and Staffing Survey. Data on crime away from school are also presented to place school crime in the context of crime in the larger society.
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Academic Libraries: 2008 First Look
The Academic Libraries: 2008 First Look summarizes services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in 2- and 4-year, degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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The Nation's Report Card: Trial Urban District Assessment Mathematics 2009
This report presents results of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics at grades 4 and 8. Results for students in 18 urban districts are reported as average scores and as percentages of students performing at or above three achievement levels: Basic, Proficient, and Advanced.
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Changes in Postsecondary Awards Below the Bachelor's Degree: 1997 to 2007
This Statistics In Brief describes changes in the number and types of postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree (certificates and associate's degrees) conferred over the decade between 1997 and 2007. The study reports on changes overall and within fields of study; it also analyzes changes in the types of institutions that confer subbaccalaureate awards and differences in awards by gender and race/ethnicity.
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Students’ Use of Tutoring Services, by Adequate Yearly Progress Status of School
This Statistics in Brief reports on the use of tutoring services among public school students enrolled in grades K–12.
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Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2008, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Staff, 2008-09
This First Look presents data from the Winter 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), including data on the number of staff employed in Title IV postsecondary institutions in fall 2008 by primary function/occupational activity, length of contract/teaching period, employment status, salary class interval, faculty and tenure status, academic rank, race/ethnicity, and gender.
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