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Bandeira de Mello, V. (2000). State profiles of public elementary and secondary education, 1996–1997. (NCES 2000-304). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

Cole, S., and McLaughlin, D. (March 2001). Study of the feasibility of using state assessment data for Title 1 reporting: Data collection process report. Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research.

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. (1999). America's children: Key national indicators of child well-being. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Innes, F. K., West, J., and Denton, K. (April 2001). Child care factors and kindergarten outcomes: Findings from a national study of children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Kaufman, P., Chen, X., Choy, S. P., Ruddy, S. A.,  Fleury, J. K., Miller, A. K., Chandler, K. A., Rand, M. R., Planty, M.G., and Klaus, P. (2000). Indicators of school crime and safety, 2000. (NCES 2001-017/NCJ-184176). Washington, DC: U.S. Departments of Education and Justice (also availabe online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001017.pdf).

Kimmelman, P., Kroeze, D., Shmidt, W., van der Ploeg, A., McNeely, M., and Tan, A. (1999). A first look at what we can learn from high performing school districts: An analysis of TIMSS data from the first in the world consortium. U.S. Department of Education, National Institute of Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Lewis, L., Parsad, B., Carey, N., Bartfai, N., Farris, E., and Smerdon, B. (1999). Teacher quality: A report on the preparation and qualifications of public school teachers. (NCES 1999-080). U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

McGrath, D. J., and Luekens, M. T. (2000). A research agenda for the 1999-2000 schools and staffing survey. (NCES 200010). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (also available online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=200010).

Riley, R. (1999). A back-to-school special report on the baby boom echo: No end in sight. U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Shafer, L. L. (1999). Data sources on lifelong learning available from the National Center for Education Statistics. (NCES 1999-11). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: NCES Working Paper.

Sherman, R., Condelli, L., and Koloski, J. (1999). Developing the national assessment of adult literacy: Recommendations from stakeholders (NCES 1998-17). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: NCES Working Paper.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (1999). The initial report of the Secretary on the quality of teacher preparation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Walston, J. T., and Lissitz, R. W. (2000). Computer-mediated focus groups. Evaluation Review 24 (5):457-483.

Walston, J. T., Lissitz, R. W., and Rudner, L. M. (2001). The influence of web-based questionnaire presentation variations on survey cooperation and survey responses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.

Walston, J. T., Rathbun, A. H., West, J., and Reaney, L. (2000). The impact of offering manipulatives during an individually administered kindergarten mathematics assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Wiley, S. D., Reynolds, K. A., Cobb, A., and Luekens, M. T. (1999). Secondary use of the schools and staffing survey data. (NCES 1999-17). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (also available online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=199917).

Wiley, S., and Reynolds, K.A. (1999). Tracking secondary use of the schools and staffing survey data: Preliminary results (1999-02). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: NCES Working Paper.

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Additional ESSI electronic publications in alphabetical order by title (ESSI authors appear in blue):

Addington, L., Ruddy, S, Miller, A., and DeVoe, J. (2000). Are America's School Safe? Students Speak Out: 1999 School Crime Supplement. (NCES 2002331). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002331

Lanahan, L. (2002). Beyond School-Level Internet Access: Support for Instructional Use of Technology. (NCES 2002029). http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/publications/2002029/

Sable, J. and Young, B.Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2001-02. (NCES 2003353).  http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003353

Flanagan, K.D., and West, J. (2002) Children's Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Kindergarten and First Grade. (NCES 2002125). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002125

Childstats Web site. 
http://childstats.gov/

Congressionally Mandated Studies of College Costs and Prices brochure. (NCES 2003171). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003171) 

Crime and Safety Surveys Web Site. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crime/

Snyder, T.D., Young, B., Stearns, C., Calfee, C., Hoffman, K., Kleiner, A., Cochrane, D., Miller, D.,  Regnier, M., Rosenthal, E., Sellers, J., and Ulman, A. (2002). Digest of Education, 2002. (NCES 2003060). http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d02/index.asp

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS). http://nces.ed.gov/ecls/

Education Statistics Quarterly. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/5_2/

Fast Response Survey System (FRSS). http://nces.ed.gov/Surveys/frss/

Core Finance Data Task Force, National Forum on Education Statistics (2003). Financial Accounting for Local and State School Systems: 2003 Edition. http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004318

International Archive of Education Data (IAED). http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IAED/index.html)

Anindita, S., Pahlke, E., Ogle, L.T., Jocelyn, L., Kastberg, D., Roey, S., and Williams, T. (2003). International Comparisons in Fourth-Grade Reading Literacy: Findings from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 2001. (NCES 2003073). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003073

Burian-Fitzgerald, M., McGrath, D., and Plisko, V. (2003). Mathematics Teachers' Familiarity with Standards and their Instructional Practices: 1995 and 1999. (NCES 2003022) http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003022

National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) Web site.  
www.nces.ed.gov/naal/

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Web site. http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/getpubcats.asp?sid=031

National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC).
http://nces.ed.gov/npec/

NCES Fast Facts.
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/

NCES-University of Maryland Graduate Certificate Program in Large Scale Assessment.
www.gcponline.org

NPEC/AIR (Association for Institutional Research) Student Success Grant Program. http://nces.ed.gov/npec/student_outcomes.asp#1

Lemke, M., Calsyn, C., Lippman, L., Jocelyn, L., Kastberg, D., Liu, Y., Roey, S., Williams, T., Kruger, T., and Bairu, G. (2001). Outcomes of Learning: Results from the 2000 Program for International Student Assessment of 15-Year-Olds in Reading, Mathematics, and Science Literacy. (NCES 2002115). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002115

Hurst, D., Tan, A., Meek, A., and Sellers, J. (2003). Overview and Inventory of State Education Reforms: 1990 to 2000. (NCES 2003020) http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003020

Gruber, K.J., Wiley, S.D., Broughman, S.P., Strizek, G.A., and Burian-Fitzgerald, M. Overview of the Data for Public, Private, Public Charter, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Elementary and Secondary Schools.  http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002313

Postsecondary Education Quick Information System (PEQIS).
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/peqis/

Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/

Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/pirlspub/1.asp 

Gerald, D.E., and Hussar, W.J. (2003). Projections of Education Statistics to 2013. (NCES 2004013). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004013 

Seastrom, M.M., Gruber, K.J., Robin Henke, R., McGrath, D.J., Cohen, B.A. (2002). Qualifications of the Public School Teacher Workforce: Prevalence of Out-of-Field Teaching 1987-88 to 1999-2000. (NCES 2002603). http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002603

SASS Web site. http://www.nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/

Social Sciences Briefing Room. http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/education.html

Planty, M., and Regnier, M. (2003). Statistics in Brief: Volunteer Service by Young People From High School Through Early Adulthood. (NCES 2004365). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004365

The 2002 NCES Statistical Standards.
http://nces.ed.gov/statprog/2002/stdtoc.asp

White, S. (2003). The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. (NCES 2003495r). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003495R

Provasnik, S., Sen, A., Wirt, J., Choy, S., Rooney, P., and Tobin, R. (2003). The Condition of Education 2003. (NCES 003067). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003067

The Nation’s Report Card. http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/bgquest.asp

Gonzales, P., and Calsyn, C. (2003). Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1999 U.S. National Restricted-Use Data and User's Guide. (NCES 2003075). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003075

Bielick, S., and Chapman, C. (2003). Trends in the Use of School Choice: 1993 to 1999. (NCES 2003031). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003031

Miller, A.K. (2003). Violence in U.S. Public Schools: 2000 School Survey on Crime and Safety. (NCES 2004314). http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004314

National Forum on Education Statistics Task Force (2003). Weaving a Secure Web around Education: A guide to Technology Standards and Security. (NCES 2003381). http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003381