1. A method for providing an education decision support library in an educational environment to enable user access to information, over a processor based network, wherein the information assists the user in making a decision in the educational environment, the method comprising the steps of: loading operational data from one or more sources into a database; providing one or more tools to extract and transform data into a decision support resource; providing one or more analysis tools that enable a user to manipulate the data; and accessing the one or more analytical tools over the processor based network.