Much of the work for this report was performed by staff at the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI), which is funded by the National Center for Education Statistics (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 ESSI for their assistance with technical support and editorial guidance: Anthony Garofano of Quality Information Partners and Lei Zhou of MacroSys Research and Technology provided technical and editorial support; Martin Hahn of AIR carefully copyedited this report; and Greg Strizek and Sandy Eyster of AIR made helpful suggestions in their reviews.
The data used in this report are collected, processed, and edited by the Governments Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, acting as agents for NCES. Many thanks go to the Common Core of Data nonfiscal team, headed by Johnny Monaco; and the fiscal team, headed by Terri Kennerly.
Stephen Ruffini of the General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service provided data on GED test passers. Stephen Broughman, Lee Hoffman, Frank Johnson, Jeffrey Owings, Marilyn Seastrom, John Sietsema, Quansheng Shen, William Sonnenberg, and Bruce Taylor of the National Center for Education Statistics reviewed the report for technical and substantive clarity. Finally, the greatest debt is owed to the state Common Core of Data coordinators who provided the data presented in this report.
