Useful sites for quantitative education research

Al Roth's Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Market Design website

Bedford Group for Lifecourse and Statistical Studies, Institute of Education, London

Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol

Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol

Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex

National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

National Foundation for Educational Research

NFER at Queen's, Centre for Educational Research, Queen's University, Belfast

Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton

Political groups associated with education policy

Campaign for State Education

Centre for the Study of Comprehensive Schools

Comprehensive Future

National Grammar Schools Association

RISE - Research and Information on State Education Trust

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

Sutton Trust

Measuring segregation

A list of the key segregation indices

Another list of segregation indices

Kuha's Index of Dissimilarity page

Wiki page on inequality indices (someone needs to do the segregation indices one!)

A list of key inequality indices

Social surveys

The Question Bank - Social Surveys and Research Questionnaires Online

Courses in Applied Social Surveys

Agent-based computation

Agent-Based Computational Economics is an essential site for economists wanting to know more about agent-based simulation to visit.

European Social Simulation Association

Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation Research Group, School of Geography, University of Leeds

NetLogo is the easiest modelling software to get started with.

RePast is a popular free open source agent modelling toolkit with pure implementations in several languages (Java, C#, Python).