where can I find free current industry statistics and market research on the
educational software market

Hello jpmjr-ga,
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Here are some sources and links,
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Some Mintel data
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:s5UuYdbLmwkC:sinatra2.mintel.com/sinatra/mintel/reports/1/menudocuments/32989430/0%2Brvt/Market-Essentials/4%263685+demographics+%22educational+software+market%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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Article with some financial information of industry players
http://www.chancery.com/corporate/newsroom/articles/in_the_news/upside_investorsgotoschool_091100.html
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Data on the E-learning market ( large page about 500k )
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:iqTKZciGVjQC:b17-06.uhk.cz/edilema/doc/E-LearningOCDE.pdf+demographics+%22educational+software+market%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
or the PDF version http://b17-06.uhk.cz/edilema/doc/E-LearningOCDE.pdf
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Educational trends
http://www.trendsreport.net/education/1.html.
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Growing trade in education goods and services (Power Point)
http://www1.worldbank.org/education/tertiary/ppt/vancouver.ppt
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Here is a good source 'if' you decided to pay for the results
http://container.pharmalicensing.com/marketresearch/index.jsp?bquery=educational+software
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Search strategy:
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demographics "educational software market"
://www.google.com/search?q=demographics+%22educational+software+market%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N
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demographics "educational software"
://www.google.com/search?q=demographics+%22educational+software%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N
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demographics education software
://www.google.com/search?q=demographics+education+software&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N
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I hope that helps,
kind regards lot-ga