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