Schools and Staffing Survey (ICPSR 36542)
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United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics
This is an external resource to which ICPSR links as a courtesy. These data are not available from ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via Schools and Staffing Survey) directly for details on obtaining these resources.
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The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is a system of related questionnaires that provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education and provide policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The SASS system covers a wide range of topics from teacher demand, teacher and principal characteristics, general conditions in schools, principals' and teachers' perceptions of school climate and problems in their schools, teacher compensation, district hiring and retention practices, to basic characteristics of the student population.
Questionnaires, methodology information and summary tables can be downloaded directly from the SASS website. Of cultural interest are the data on library and media centers which offer insights into subjects such as library staffing, library collections, and library expenditures. These data can be accessed through the National Center for Education Statistics DataLab.
Policymakers involved in arts and culture would find tables from the SASS/TFS Table Library important to their work, including the following:
- Number and percentage of public school teachers whose main assignment is in arts and music, by main teaching assignment and community type: 2011-12
- Number of public schools that reported having library media centers, by state: 2011-12
- Average number of holdings, additions, and expenditures in library media centers during 2010-11 for various kinds of materials, by state: 2011-12
- Average hours public and private third grade students spent on art and music during a typical full week of school, by selected school characteristics: 2007-08
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- For additional resources, researchers can download a Research Agenda for the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES 200010) and the Secondary Use of the Schools and Staffing Survey Data (NCES 199917) which lists papers presented or published by researchers outside of NCES. For questions about SASS, email sassdata@ed.gov.