Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments and suggestions of the reviewers. Good advice and careful reading were provided by Bill Tirre and Kerry Gruber of NCES; Bruce Taylor of NCES led the Education Statistics Services Institute review team of Deven Carlson, Heather Freilich, Chuck Rainville, and Todd Thomas. Carol Rohr, Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc., was responsible for formatting the final report. Finally, the greatest debt is owed to the State Common Core of Data Coordinators who provided the data presented in this report.