Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the many individuals who contributed to the development of the survey and this report. The survey was conducted by Westat under contract to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education; Bernard Greene was project officer.

The NCES staff who reviewed the report and provided valuable suggestions include Bruce Taylor, Marilyn Seastrom, William Hussar, Val Plisko, John Ralph, Lisa Hudson, John Wirt, Tracy Hunt-White, and Nancy Borkow. Reviewers outside of NCES were Hunter Boylan of the National Center for Developmental Education at Appalachian State University, Robert McCabe of Miami Dade Community College, Jon Oberg of Policy and Program Studies Service, and Stephanie Cronen, Lawrence Lanahan, and Leslie Scott of the American Institutes for Research, Education Statistics Services Institute. At Westat, the project director was Elizabeth Farris. Data collection efforts were directed by Debbie Alexander with assistance from Ratna Basavaraju, and the programmer was Nazik Elgaddal. Carol Litman edited the report, which was formatted by Sylvie Warren.