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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">NCES Releases New Search Tool for Postsecondary Education Data Users
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">To improve postsecondary education data users’ access to data, NCES has released the
<a href="http://nces.ed.gov/datalab/tableslibrary/home.aspx">College and Career Tables Library</a> as part of
<a href="http://nces.ed.gov/datalab/">DataLab</a> – NCES’s postsecondary education data tool suite, which includes PowerStats and QuickStats.<br>
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The Tables Library lets you <br>
• Browse 5,000+ tables from NCES’s postsecondary publications<br>
• Search for tables by keywords; narrow search results by data source and publication year; and browse for tables by topic using explore topics
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The tables also include link back to the original publications and you can download the files used to create the tables within PowerStats (for those based on datasets that are within PowerStats).<br>
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To access the Tables Library, please visit <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/datalab">http://nces.ed.gov/datalab</a>. If you have questions about the Tables Library, please send them to
<a href="mailto:powerstats@ed.gov">powerstats@ed.gov</a>.<br>
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This Tables Library is a product of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ann Reed, Federal Programs Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ann.reed@state.or.us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">phone 503-378-5027<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">fax 503-378-6439<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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