Much of the work for this documentation was preformed by staff at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI), which is funded by NCES and composed of staff from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and a number of partner organizations. The authors would like to acknowledge the following individuals from NCES and ESSI for their assistance with analysis, editorial comments, and guidance: Lee Hoffman, Bruce Taylor, Jeff Owings, Bill Sonnenberg, and Julia Bloom of NCES, Duc-Le To of IES, Sally Ruddy, Greg Strizek, Sandy Eyster, and Martin Hahn of AIR, Lei Zhou of MacroSys Research and Technology, Anthony Garofano of Quality Information Partners, Inc., and Mark Glander of Kforce Inc. for their review. Sincere gratitude is expressed to all individuals who provided the data that made this report possible and to Carol Rohr of Kforce, who was responsible for the final formatting of this report.
For further information about this report or related publications or datasets, contact Frank Johnson. More NCES publications are available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch.
