• The Toolkit: A Collection of Data Driven Decision-Making Tools for Educators
The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) website presents a variety of information-gathering tools to help educators collect data about their classroom, school or district.

• Data Primer (NCREL)
A instructional website designed to help educators become more comfortable with thinking about and using data for the purposes of instructional decision making.

• Coalition of Essential Schools
For over twenty years, CES has been a national leader in public education transformation. Guided by the Common Principles, CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.

• Evaluating for Success: An Evaluation Guide for Districts and Schools
A resource for helping districts and schools to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives and changes.

• Data-Driven Decision Making folio 
From McREL

• Data-Driven Decision Making 
This Education Commission of the States' No Child Left Behind issue brief discusses how districts can support schools' use of data.

• Indicator: Data-Driven Decision Making and Accountability
What does it look like in practice? From NCREL

• The Department of Education Administration College of Education Data Use Website
This website provides resources on data-driven decision-making, including reviews of software for analyzing student data.

• Embracing the Information Age 

• Data-driven Improvement Effort Leads to Results in Oak Park
Presented by the National Staff Development Council

• ECS Issue Paper: Informing Practices and Improving Results with Data-Driven Decisions 
The various stages of working with data to inform education decision making and improve results are explored in this ECS paper.

• Improving School Board Decision-Making: The Data Connection
Data Connection Web site from the National School Boards Foundation.

• McREL Policy Brief: Standards-Based Accountability Systems
Policy brief aimed at providing guidance for developing effective accountability systems.

• The Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA)
A professional organization serving over 550+ education service agencies (ESAs) in 44 states.

• Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC)
Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC)

• Assessment
School change toolkit resources from McREL

• Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI)

• The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2014
After analyzing key demographic, economic, cultural, global, political, and technological trends in the US, McREL has written 16 scenarios that describe how these trends may converge to create different futures for schooling in America.

• Center for Education Performance & Information

• School Performance Information

• Standard and Poors School Evaluation Services (Schools Matter)

• Books