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This article was excerpted from the Introduction and Wyoming State Profile in the Statistical Analysis Report of the same name. The universe data are primarily from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD). Additional sources of universe and sample survey data are listed at the end of this article. | |||
Examinations of the status and quality of education in the United States are often based on comparisons among states. Comparisons of this type are most useful, valid, and constructive when states are examined alongside other states with similar characteristics. It is also helpful to have a variety of factors that are important to public education conveniently arrayed for individual states. State Profiles of Public Elementary and Secondary Education : 1996-97 is the third in a series of publications reporting summary data on the general characteristics, fiscal revenues and expenditures, education agency and school numbers and sizes, and students and staff for each state, the District of Columbia, Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Overseas), and the five outlying areas-American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The factors for which these data are reported are those most commonly used to present a thumbnail sketch of the resources, needs, organization, and special characteristics of education within a state. When available, equivalent data for the 1987-88 school year are presented side by side with the 1996-97 data to help in the assessment of changes over a 10-year period. This information is displayed in numeric and graphic form to make it useful for a wide range of audiences and purposes. This report is divided into three major sections:
The bulk of this report consists of the state-level profiles, each 8 pages long and featuring the same set of tables and figures. (By way of illustration, this article excerpts several examples from the Wyoming profile.) Each profile presents five categories of relevant information:
Table A.-Selected demographic data for the state of Wyoming: 1987 and 1996
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics: Common Core of Data (CCD), school years 1987-88 and 1996-97; and State Profiles of Public Elementary and Secondary Education: 1991-92 (NCES 95-668). (Originally published as the Wyoming "Demographics" table on p. 429 of the complete report from which this article is excerpted.)
Figure A.-Percentage distribution of Wyoming public schools and students by type of locale: 1996
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), school year 1996-97; and State Profiles of Public Elementary and Secondary Education: 1991-92 (NCES 95-668). (Originally published as figure 3 for Wyoming, on p. 431 of the complete report from which this article is excerpted.)
-Not available. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics: NAEP 1996 Mathematics Report Card for the Nation and the States (NCES 97-488) and NAEP 1996 Science Report Card for the Nation and the States (NCES 97-497). (Originally published as the Wyoming table of achievement levels on p. 433 of the complete report from which this article is excerpted.)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), school years 1987-88 and 1996-97. (Originally published as the Wyoming "Educational staff" table on p. 434 of the complete report from which this article is excerpted.)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics: Common Core of Data (CCD), school year 1996-97; and Digest of Education Statistics: 1991 (NCES 91-697). (Originally published as the Wyoming "Revenues and expenditures" table on p. 436 of the complete report from which this article is excerpted.)
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