Research Guides: Education: Curriculum Standards & Statistics

Curriculum Standards

EBSCOhost Curriculum Standards
Browse brief descriptions of academic standards by state.
California State Board of Education Content Standards
Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
California State Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Materials
Curriculum frameworks provide guidance for implementing the content standards adopted by the State Board of Education (SBE). Frameworks are developed by the Instructional Quality Commission, formerly known as the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission, which also reviews and recommends textbooks and other instructional materials to be adopted by the SBE.
California - Common Core State Standards
Educational standards describe what students should know and be able to do in each subject in each grade. In California, the State Board of Education decides on the standards for all students, from kindergarten through high school.
CA Dept. of Education Reccomended Reading List
Search for readings for students based on Search by Author, Title, Keywords, Discipline, Grade Level Span and Language.

CA Dept of Education Data Files
Raw data on enrollment, retention, graduation, and demographics that can be downloaded and used in other programs like SPSS.
CA Dept of Education Statistics
Data and statistics collected from California schools and learning support resources to identify trends and educational needs and to measure performance.
CA Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Non confidential health and human services data that can be easily retrieved, combined, downloaded, sorted, searched, and analyzed.
Data LA
Open datasets to analyze and create visualizations with from all LA agencies.
LAUSD Fact Sheet
A basic overview of LAUSD by the numbers

The Condtiion of Education (NCES)
This website contains key indicators on the condition of education in the United States at all levels, from pre-kindergarten through post-secondary, as well as labor force outcomes and international comparisons. The indicators summarize important developments and trends using the latest statistics, which are updated throughout the year as new data become available. In addition, this website has Spotlight indicators that provide more in-depth analyses on selected topics.
Data & Statistics | U.S. Department of Education
Includes data-sets, links, featured resources and more.
General Social Survey (GSS)
Since 1972, the GSS has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spending priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.
National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
Educational statistics from early childhood through postsecondary education.
Pew Research Center
Public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. Topics range from politics, technology, social trends, religion, science, and race and ethnicity.
U.S. Department of Education Public Data Listing
Web-enabled version of machine-readable data featuring searching, filtering and links to additional downloads and resources.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
A source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.
World Bank Data
Data is accessible by country, indicator, or topic, or via a specific database such as World Development Indicators, Gender Statistics, Education Statistics, the Poverty and Equity Database, or one of many others.
World Health Organization Statistics
The World Health Statistics series is WHO’s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States.

My Brother's Keeper - Key Statistical Indicators on Boys and Men of color
MBK initiative is an inter-agency effort to improve measurably the expected educational and life outcomes for and address the persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color (including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans). These statistics are highlighted in the MBK Task Force May 2014 report and are posted on MBK.ed.gov.

ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research This link opens in a new window
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ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts many specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Some notable collections include:
- Research Data Gov - for restricted microdata from Federal Agencies
- College and Beyond II - for studying the impact and outcomes of higher education
- SOMAR - for studying social media data
Rand California and US Statistics This link opens in a new window
RAND US contains nearly many social science databases covering all 50 US states. The CA collection contains these US databases, as well as detailed databases on California. Data on a wide range of factors such as health, economics, population and more. Maps and data visualizations help users explore the data.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States This link opens in a new window
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Published from 1878 to 2012, an authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.