{
  "section": "Education APIs and datasets",
  "count": 34,
  "entries": [
    {
      "name": "Urban Institute Education Data API",
      "url": "https://educationdata.urban.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://educationdata.urban.org/documentation/",
      "description": "Unified API over NCES CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, EDFacts, Scorecard and more for K-12 and college data.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON, CSV",
      "license": "Open data (see Urban Institute terms)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Common Standards Project API",
      "url": "https://commonstandardsproject.com/",
      "docs_url": "https://commonstandardsproject.com/developers",
      "description": "API of K-12 academic standards (Common Core, NGSS, all US states) as structured data.",
      "category": "standards",
      "access": "free key",
      "auth": "API key",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "CC BY 4.0 (standards data)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "OpenStax",
      "url": "https://openstax.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://openstax.org/",
      "description": "Free peer-reviewed openly licensed textbooks for college and high school.",
      "category": "content",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "Web, PDF",
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "College Scorecard API",
      "url": "https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/",
      "docs_url": "https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api-documentation/",
      "description": "US Dept. of Education data on college costs, outcomes, earnings and debt.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "free key",
      "auth": "api.data.gov key",
      "formats": "JSON, CSV",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "NYC DOE High School Directory (NYC Open Data)",
      "url": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Education/2020-DOE-High-School-Directory/23z9-6uk9",
      "docs_url": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/",
      "description": "NYC public high school directory dataset via Socrata SODA API.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none (optional app token)",
      "formats": "JSON, CSV, XML",
      "license": "NYC Open Data terms",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Open Library API",
      "url": "https://openlibrary.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://openlibrary.org/developers/api",
      "description": "Book, author, edition and subject data plus search from the Internet Archive's Open Library.",
      "category": "books",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "CC0 (data)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wikidata Query Service",
      "url": "https://query.wikidata.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access",
      "description": "SPARQL and API access to structured knowledge including schools, universities and subjects.",
      "category": "other",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON, RDF, CSV",
      "license": "CC0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "NCES Common Core of Data (CCD)",
      "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/",
      "docs_url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/",
      "description": "Annual census of all US public schools and districts.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "CSV, SAS, Excel",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "NCES IPEDS Data Center",
      "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/",
      "docs_url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/",
      "description": "Data on every US postsecondary institution: enrollment, completions, finance, staff.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "CSV, Access",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Books API",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using",
      "description": "Search and metadata for millions of books.",
      "category": "books",
      "access": "free key",
      "auth": "API key / OAuth",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "Google APIs Terms",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Project Gutenberg",
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/",
      "description": "70,000+ free public-domain ebooks.",
      "category": "books",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "EPUB, TXT, HTML",
      "license": "Public domain (US)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gutendex",
      "url": "https://gutendex.com/",
      "docs_url": "https://gutendex.com/",
      "description": "JSON web API for Project Gutenberg book metadata.",
      "category": "books",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "Open source (MIT)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Crossref REST API",
      "url": "https://api.crossref.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://api.crossref.org/",
      "description": "Metadata for scholarly works, including education research DOIs.",
      "category": "other",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "Metadata largely CC0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "OpenAlex",
      "url": "https://openalex.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.openalex.org/",
      "description": "Open catalog of scholarly works, authors and institutions.",
      "category": "other",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none (optional key)",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "CC0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "NAEP Data Service API (Nation's Report Card)",
      "url": "https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/",
      "docs_url": "https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/api_documentation.aspx",
      "description": "API for NAEP assessment results by subject, grade, state and subgroup.",
      "category": "assessment",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "World Bank Education Statistics",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/topic/education",
      "docs_url": "https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392",
      "description": "International education indicators via the World Bank Indicators API.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON, XML, CSV",
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "MIT OpenCourseWare",
      "url": "https://ocw.mit.edu/",
      "docs_url": "https://ocw.mit.edu/",
      "description": "Free course materials from 2,500+ MIT courses.",
      "category": "content",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "Web, PDF, video",
      "license": "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Internet Archive APIs",
      "url": "https://archive.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://archive.org/developers/",
      "description": "APIs to search and download texts, video and audio from the Internet Archive.",
      "category": "books",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none (key for uploads)",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "Varies by item",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wikipedia/Wikimedia REST API",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/",
      "docs_url": "https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page",
      "description": "Article summaries, content and media from Wikipedia.",
      "category": "content",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON, HTML",
      "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "data.ed.gov",
      "url": "https://data.ed.gov/",
      "docs_url": "https://data.ed.gov/",
      "description": "US Department of Education open data catalog.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "CSV, various",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)",
      "url": "https://civilrightsdata.ed.gov/",
      "docs_url": "https://civilrightsdata.ed.gov/",
      "description": "School-level data on access, discipline and equity in US public schools.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "CSV",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "US Census Data API",
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html",
      "docs_url": "https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html",
      "description": "Census/ACS data incl. school enrollment, attainment and school district finance.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "free key",
      "auth": "API key (optional at low volume)",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "MERLOT",
      "url": "https://www.merlot.org/merlot/",
      "docs_url": "https://www.merlot.org/merlot/",
      "description": "Curated collection of peer-reviewed open educational resources.",
      "category": "content",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "Web",
      "license": "Varies by resource",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Harvard Dataverse",
      "url": "https://dataverse.harvard.edu/",
      "docs_url": "https://dataverse.harvard.edu/",
      "description": "Research data repository with many education datasets and a Dataverse API.",
      "category": "other",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none (token for writes)",
      "formats": "JSON, various",
      "license": "Varies (often CC0)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "GSM8K",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/openai/gsm8k",
      "docs_url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/openai/gsm8k",
      "description": "8.5K grade-school math word problems with step-by-step solutions.",
      "category": "assessment",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "Parquet, JSON",
      "license": "MIT",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "MMLU",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/cais/mmlu",
      "docs_url": "https://github.com/hendrycks/test",
      "description": "Multiple-choice questions across 57 academic subjects.",
      "category": "assessment",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "Parquet, CSV",
      "license": "MIT",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Data.gov Education Datasets",
      "url": "https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?groups=education",
      "docs_url": "https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?groups=education",
      "description": "Catalog of US federal/state education datasets with CKAN API.",
      "category": "school data",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON, CSV, various",
      "license": "Varies (mostly public domain)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Free Dictionary API",
      "url": "https://dictionaryapi.dev/",
      "docs_url": "https://dictionaryapi.dev/",
      "description": "English word definitions, phonetics and examples.",
      "category": "other",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "Open source (see site)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Open Trivia Database",
      "url": "https://opentdb.com/",
      "docs_url": "https://opentdb.com/api_config.php",
      "description": "Free API of categorized trivia questions for quizzes.",
      "category": "assessment",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Library of Congress APIs",
      "url": "https://www.loc.gov/apis/",
      "docs_url": "https://www.loc.gov/apis/",
      "description": "JSON API to digitized collections, primary sources and media.",
      "category": "content",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "JSON, YAML",
      "license": "Mostly public domain / varies",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "NASA Open APIs",
      "url": "https://api.nasa.gov/",
      "docs_url": "https://api.nasa.gov/",
      "description": "Space imagery and data (APOD, Mars rover, etc.) for science lessons.",
      "category": "content",
      "access": "free key",
      "auth": "api.data.gov key (DEMO_KEY available)",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "US public domain (mostly)",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "1EdTech OneRoster",
      "url": "https://www.1edtech.org/standards/oneroster",
      "docs_url": "https://www.1edtech.org/standards/oneroster",
      "description": "Interoperability standard for exchanging roster and grade data between SIS and LMS.",
      "category": "standards",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "OAuth (implementations)",
      "formats": "JSON, CSV",
      "license": "1EdTech spec license",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "CEDS (Common Education Data Standards)",
      "url": "https://ceds.ed.gov/",
      "docs_url": "https://ceds.ed.gov/",
      "description": "Common vocabulary and data model for P-20W education data.",
      "category": "standards",
      "access": "open",
      "auth": "none",
      "formats": "Web, Excel, SQL",
      "license": "US public domain",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "name": "Semantic Scholar API",
      "url": "https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api",
      "docs_url": "https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/",
      "description": "Academic paper search, citations and author data.",
      "category": "other",
      "access": "free key",
      "auth": "none (key for higher limits)",
      "formats": "JSON",
      "license": "Semantic Scholar API license",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-14"
    }
  ]
}