Special Analysis 2007

High School Coursetaking

Table SSA-10. Standard errors for the percentage distribution of high school graduates, by highest level of foreign language course completed: Selected years, 1982–2004

			Advanced academic level
Year	None	Year 2 or less	Year 3 or higher	Year 3	Year 4	Advanced Placement (AP)

1982	1.04	0.82	0.78	0.51	0.34	0.19
1987	1.27	1.12	1.34	0.87	0.40	0.43
1990	1.13	1.04	1.17	0.73	0.44	0.51
1992	0.90	1.10	1.13	0.78	0.68	0.31
1994	0.89	1.04	1.17	0.82	0.76	0.39
1998	0.89	1.20	1.40	1.06	0.58	0.50
2000	0.90	1.28	1.33	0.95	0.46	0.77
2004	0.64	0.90	1.05	0.66	0.48	0.39
2004	0.60	0.90	1.05	0.67	0.49	0.40

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores, “First Follow-up” (HS&B:80/82); National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, “High School Transcript Study” (NELS:88/92); Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002/04), “High School Transcript Study”; and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1987, 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2000 High School Transcript Studies (HSTS).

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