Resources

• Fundamentals of Data Analysis and Visualization: A great cheat sheet of Stata commands

• Videos and Cheat Sheets for Statistics and Programming by Richard Blissett

• A thread on making Stata graphics grayscale and colorblind friendly by Asjad Naqvi 

• A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics by Stata Press

• Get Real! Inflation Adjustments of Educational Finance Data by Kenneth Shores and Christopher Candelaria (Stata program here)

Causal Inference & Econometrics: 

• • Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunningham: A helpful book (available as a PDF) with theory and code in Stata and R

  • 'Metrics Notes by Peter Hull: Undergraduate and graduate-level econometrics notes

• MultiLevel Modeling: Introduction to Multilevel Modeling by Mairead Shaw and Jessica Kay Flake

• Survival Analysis Resources: Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis & An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata

• Google Dataset Search 

• Urban Institute Data Portal: Allows you to build your own longitudinal data set - list of data sources here (K12 & HE)

NCES Data:

• • Common Core of Data: Provides basic fiscal and non-fiscal information on public elementary and secondary schools, local education agencies (LEAs), and state education agencies (SEAs)

  • IPEDS: Complete data files for the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System 

  • Datalab: Web-based tool that provides access to data from more than a dozen NCES studies to do custom online analyses (K12 & HE)

Census:

• • IPUMS: IPUMS USA collects, preserves and harmonizes U.S. census microdata and provides easy access to this data with enhanced documentation. Data includes decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010 and American Community Surveys (ACS) from 2000 to the present. "USE IT FOR GOOD -- NEVER FOR EVIL"

  • Census Linking Project: Crosswalks for linking U.S. Census data 1850-1940

Bureau of Labor Statistics:

• • National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are a set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women." (Two cohorts: 1979 and 1997)

  • American Time Use Survey: The American Time Use Survey measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing.

• Office of Civil Rights: The CRDC collects data on leading civil rights indicators related to access and barriers to educational opportunities at the early childhood through grade 12 levels. List of data elements here. 

• Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA): includes a range of detailed data on educational conditions, contexts, and outcomes in school districts and counties across the United States. It includes measures of academic achievement and achievement gaps for school districts and counties, as well as district-level measures of racial and socioeconomic composition, racial and socioeconomic segregation patterns, and other features of the schooling system.

• The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): The largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing. 

• Opportunity Insights: Public datasets and republication code for the Opportunity Insights project. These datasets allow you to analyze social mobility and a variety of other outcomes from life expectancy to patent rates by neighborhood, college, parental income level, and racial background.

• Correlates of State Policy: Aims to compile, disseminate, and encourage the use of data relevant to U.S. state policy research, tracking policy differences across the 50 states and changes over time. 

• K-12 Education Polls Archive by EdChoice

• Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database: Apply for access to quantitative data and classroom videos created by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project.

Graduate School

• Applying: Advice on writing a personal statement for graduate school by Eve Ewing, Margaret Echelbarger, and Heba Gowayed

• A Field Guide to Grad School by Jessica Calaraco: A helpful book on navigating grad school (from the applications to the job search)

Reading, Writing, and Research

• Tips for Reading Sociology by Nicole Deterding: Helpful tips for learning to read dense academic articles quickly

• Suggested structures for writing quant and qual articles and a short guide to writing abstracts

• A thread on designing research posters

• Using AI Tools in Your Research by Northwestern Libraries

Conferences

• Desingning slides and preparing for a conference talk by Jessica Calaraco 

• A thread on designing poster presentations

• How to Review Conference Proposals (and Why You Should Bother) by Sarah Theule Lubienski (EdResearcher article)

Support and Development

• AEFP Community Groups: These groups strive to build community, create networks, and share professional resources. There are currently have 7 community groups: Doctoral Students, First-generation Scholars, LGBTQ+ Scholars, Policymakers & Practitioners, Qualitative Policy Scholars, Scholars of Color, Scholars of Education in Developing Countries. (You do not need to be a member of AEFP to participate!)

• SREE Professional Development Video Libary: Some videos available to nonmembers

• The UCEA Barbara L. Jackson Scholars Network is a two-year program provides formal networking, mentoring and professional development for graduate students of color who intend to become professors of educational leadership

• The Just Education Policy Institute is a community of scholars and activists dedicated to advancing racial equity and justice in education policy through community education, incubating critical knowledge, and connecting research to action

• The UCEA/AERA David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration & Policy, brings emerging educational administration and policy scholars and noted researchers together for two days of presentations, generative discussion, and professional growth (typically for those in their 4th year)

Staying Informed

• The Education Policy Hotlist by Christine Pitts (Substack)

• Education Reporting: Chalkbeat, Hechinger Report, The 74 Million

• Twitter Lists: Education Reporters, AERA Division L directory 

• Ed Policy/Econ of Ed Subscriptions Spreadsheet by Mark Chin

Jobs!

• Ed Policy Organizations for Job Seekers by Beth Schueler

• UCEA Job Search Handbook

• The Higher Ed Faculty Search Spreadsheet: Crowd-sourced spreadsheet on higher education faculty jobs 

• Tips about the Academic Job Market by Paul Bruno

• A thread on Academic Job Market Interviews by Bin Xu

• A thread on Negotiating an Academic Jobs by Michael W. Moses II

• I am happy to share my academic job market materials -- email me