Cross-national comparisons of instructional time
New tables with cross-national comparisons of average numbers of hours of instruction in and out of schools.
BPS:04/09 Transcript Data Available
Data from the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09) transcripts are available for use on NCES’s web-based data analysis tool – PowerStats, and as a restricted-use data file.
Data Snapshot
2009 graduates earned an average of 3 credits more over the course of their high school education than 1990 graduates. This translates to about 420 additional hours of instruction during their high school careers.
Fifty-seven percent of eighth-grade AI/AN students in public schools and 55 percent in BIE schools indicated that they planned to go to college full time after high school.
