Library News for the College of Education
Thursday, November 13, 2003
New Report:
Public High School Dropouts and Completers from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2000-01 [pdf] from NCES presents state-level public high school dropout and completion rates. The report uses an annual event dropout rate and a 4-year high school completion rate and presents data for the 2000-01 school year.
New Report:
The results of the 2003 reading and math assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress were released today.
Friday, November 07, 2003
New Report:
"Postsecondary Institutions in the United States: Fall 2002 and Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2001-02" [pdf] presents information from the Fall 2002 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) web-based data collection. Data were requested from nearly 6,600 postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal student financial aid programs. The tables in this publication present counts of institutions by selected institutional characteristics including tuition, fees, and other costs. Tables also present data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred during the period July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 by Title IV postsecondary institutions.
Resource Update:
The NCES School District Demographic System (SDDS) version 2.0 is now available. The latest release of SDDS adds 3 new universes of Census Bureau School District Tabulation data. The new universes are Children, Households with Children, and Parents with Children. This dataset is one of the largest special tabulations developed from the 2000 census and includes more than one billion demographic estimates. The tabulation provides more than 100,000 unique demographic characteristics per school district and constitutes one of the largest, most current sources of children's demographics available from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In addition to new data, the SDDS Map Viewer has also been enhanced to allow more "Adjust Legend" options and 35 more available demographic selections to overlay on the school district maps. The image size of the map has also been increased by more than 50%.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
New Resource:
The Libraries now have access to PsycARTICLES, a full-text journal collection [journal listing] of all American Psychological Association journals as well as publications from the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. Temple students, faculty & staff will need an OVID username and password in order to access PsycARTICLES. You can sign up for these online.
New Resource:
The Libraries now have online access to the full-text of the Philadelphia Inquirer (1981 to today) and the Philadelphia Daily News (1978 to today), as well as eight other Pennsylvania newspapers. Note that this is full-text only, no illustrations, etc. For other full-text newspapers check LexisNexis Academic and Ethnic NewsWatch.
