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| Note From NCES |
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Note From NCES |
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By: | Val Plisko, Associate Commissioner, Early Childhood, International, and Crosscutting Studies Division |
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Provides a brief overview of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), including goals, topics covered, and methodology. |
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| Featured Topic: National Household Education Surveys Program |
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Efforts by Public K-8 Schools to Involve Parents in Children’s Education: Do School and Parent Reports Agree? |
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By: | Xianglei Chen |
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Examines the level of agreement between parents’ and schools’ views of how schools involve parents in their children’s education and how parents respond to the opportunities for involvement that schools provide. |
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Participation Trends and Patterns in Adult Education: 1991 to 1999 |
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By: | Sean Creighton and Lisa Hudson |
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Discusses adult participation in formal learning activities during the 1990s, focusing on trends in participation over time and patterns of participation in 1999. |
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Invited Commentary: Household Data in the Federal Statistical System: The Role of the National Household Education Surveys Program |
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By: | Susan Schechter, Senior Statistician, Office of Management and Budget |
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Invited Commentary: When School Surveys Just Aren't Enough: Uses of the National Household Education Surveys Program |
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By: | David B. Bills, Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, University of Iowa |
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| Elementary and Secondary Education |
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The Nation’s Report Card: Science Highlights 2000 |
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By: | National Center for Education Statistics |
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Presents highlights from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2000 Science Assessment, including average scores and achievement-level performance at the national and state levels. |
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Assessing the Best: NAEP’s 1996 Assessment of Twelfth-Graders Taking Advanced Science Courses |
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By: | Christine Y. O’Sullivan and Wendy S. Grigg |
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Provides results from a NAEP special study of the science achievement of 12th-graders taking advanced science courses in biology, chemistry, or physics. |
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Dropout Rates in the United States: 2000 |
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By: | Phillip Kaufman, Martha Naomi Alt, and Christopher D. Chapman |
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Presents dropout rates for 2000, as well as time series data on high school dropout and completion rates for 1972 to 2000. Also examines the characteristics of high school dropouts and completers in 2000. |
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Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2001 |
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By: | Phillip Kaufman, Xianglei Chen, Susan P. Choy, Katharin Peter, Sally A. Ruddy, Amanda K. Miller, Jill K. Fleury, Kathryn A. Chandler, Michael G. Planty, and Michael R. Rand |
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Presents the latest indicator data on school crime and student safety, including updates on student and teacher victimization, weapons and fights at school, students’ alcohol and marijuana use, and students’ reports of drug availability at school. |
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Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 1999-2000 |
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By: | Beth Aronstamm Young |
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Describes characteristics of the 100 largest school districts, such as district size (defined as the number of students in membership), number and average size of schools, pupil/teacher ratios, number of high school graduates, number of special education students, and minority enrollment. |
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| Postsecondary Education |
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Institutional Policies and Practices: Results From the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, Institution Survey |
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By: | Andrea Berger, Rita Kirshstein, and Elizabeth Rowe |
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Focuses on institutions’ policies and practices affecting full-time and part-time faculty in fall 1998, including teaching assignments, performance evaluations, tenure, and benefits. |
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| Lifelong Learning |
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Adult Literacy and Education in America |
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By: | Carl F. Kaestle, Anne Campbell, Jeremy D. Finn, Sylvia T. Johnson, and Larry J. Mikulecky |
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Explores the relationship between formal schooling and adult literacy proficiency overall and for members of different demographic subgroups, for high school noncompleters, for those scoring lowest on literacy tasks, and for individuals in the workplace. |
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English Literacy and Language Minorities in the United States |
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By: | Elizabeth Greenberg, Reynaldo F. Macías, David Rhodes, and Tsze Chan |
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Explores the English fluency and literacy of U.S. adults whose native language is not English, their fluency and literacy in their native language, and their employment patterns and earnings. |
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| Libraries |
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State Library Agencies: Fiscal Year 2000 |
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By: | P. Elaine Kroe, Patricia Garner, and Cindy Sheckells |
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Contains data on state library agencies, including these agencies’ governance, staffing, income and expenditures, electronic services, and services to libraries. |
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Public Library Trends Analysis: Fiscal Years 1992-1996 |
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By: | Denise Glover |
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Identifies and describes trends in public libraries for 24 selected variables, including library collections, services, operating income and expenditures, and staffing. |
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| Crosscutting Statistics |
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Projections of Education Statistics to 2011 |
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By: | Debra E. Gerald and William J. Hussar |
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Presents national data on enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2011. Also includes state-level projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and public high school graduates. |
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| Methodology |
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The NAEP 1998 Technical Report |
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By: | Nancy L. Allen, John R. Donoghue, and Terry L. Schoeps |
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Provides details on the instrument development, sample design, data collection, and data analysis procedures for the 1998 NAEP national and state assessments. |
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| Other Publications and Training and Funding Opportunities |
| Other Publications |
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The Nation's Report Card: State Science 2000 Reports |
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By: | Charlotte Solomon, Laura Jerry, and Anthony Lutkus |
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Paving the Way to Postsecondary Education:K–12
Intervention Programs for Underrepresented Youth |
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Patricia Gándara with Deborah Bial |
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Directory of Public Elementary and Secondary Education
Agencies:1998–99 |
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By: | Lena McDowell and John Sietsema |
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Selected Papers in School Finance:2000–01 |
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By: | William J. Fowler, Jr. (editor) |
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Mini-Digest of Education Statistics: 2000 |
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By: | Charlene Hoffman |
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The Condition of Education 2001 in Brief |
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By: | John Wirt and Andrea Livingston |
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11th Federal Forecasters Conference: Papers and Proceedings |
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By: | Debra E. Gerald (editor) |
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| Training and Funding Opportunities |
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Training |
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The AERA Grants Program |
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The NAEP Secondary Analysis Grant Program |
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