Source Information
The following reports and surveys from the National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (except where noted otherwise) were used as sources for this document.
Table 1: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 3), Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 1985–86 through 2007–08; Projections of Education Statistics to 2018.
Table 2: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 3), Private Schools in American Education; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989–90 through 2007–08; Projections of Education Statistics to 2018.
Table 3: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 3), Projections of Education Statistics to 2018.
Table 4: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 43), U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October 1980 through October 2008.
Table 5: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 7), U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October 1970 through October 2008.
Table 6: Digest of Education Statistics, 2002 (table 42), U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 1986 State Summaries of Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey. Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 41), Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1997–98 and 2007–08.
Table 7: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 50), Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems, 1976–77 and 1980–81; Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/ Secondary Education," 1990–91 through 2007–08; and Projections of Education Statistics to 2018. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, selected years, 1977 through 1996; and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) database, retrieved on April 14, 2009, from http://www. ideadata.org/partBdata.asp.
Table 8: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (tables 194 and 196), 1990, 2000, and 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90), and Spring 2001 and Spring 2009.
Table 9: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (tables 194 and 196), 1990, 2000, and 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90), and Spring 2001 and Spring 2009.
Table 10: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 7), U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October 1985 through October 2008.
Table 11: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 191), 1990, 2000, and 2007 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90), Spring 2001 and Spring 2008; and Projections of Education Statistics to 2018. U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October, 1990, 2000, and 2007.
Table 12: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 226), Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities" survey, 1980; 1990, 2000, and 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90), Spring 2001 and Spring 2009.
Table 13: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 205), Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities" surveys, 1970 through 1985; 1990 through 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90–99), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2009.
Table 14: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 206), Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities" surveys, 1970 through 1985; 1990 through 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90–99), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2009.
Table 15: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 64), Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary Day Schools, 1980–81; Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1990–91 through 2007–08; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989–90 through 2007–08; and Projections of Education Statistics to 2018.
Table 16: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 78), National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics, 1970–71 through 2008–09; and unpublished tabulations.
Table 17: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 68), Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public Teacher Questionnaire," 2007–08.
Table 18: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 68), Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Private Teacher Questionnaire," 2007–08.
Table 19: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 245), 2007 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Winter 2007–08.
Tables 20 and 21: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 257), Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Faculty Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits" surveys, 1970–71 through 1985–86; and 1990–91 through 2008–09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS),"Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Survey" (IPEDS-SA:90–99), and Winter 2001–02 through Winter 2008–09.
Table 22: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 123), National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1992, 2002, and 2007 Reading Assessments, retrieved June 16, 2008, from the NAEP Data Explorer (http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde/).
Table 23: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 138), National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1990, 2000, and 2009 Mathematics Assessments, retrieved November 18, 2009, from the NAEP Data Explorer (http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ naepdata/).
Table 24: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 140), National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1996, 2000, and 2005 Science Assessments, retrieved November 2006, from the NAEP Data Explorer (http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde/).
Table 25: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 153), High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores (HS&B-So:80/82),"High School Transcript Study"; and 1998 and 2005 High School Transcript Study (HSTS).
Table 26: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 103), Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems, 1976–77 and 1979–80; Statistics of Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Schools, 1976 through 1980; Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1984–85 through 2007–08; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989 through 2007; and Projections of Education Statistics to 2018.
Table 27: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 108), U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October 1975 through October 2008.
Tables 28 and 29: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 268), Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Degrees and other Formal Awards Conferred" surveys, 1969–70 through 1985–86; and 1986–87 through 2007–08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:87–99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2008.
Table 30: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 8), U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, Series P-20, Current Population Survey (CPS), March 1970 through March 2009.
Table 31: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (tables 26 and 27), Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1980–81 and 1985–86; Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1990–91 through 2006–07; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education, 1980–81 and 1985–86; 1990–91 through 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Finance Survey" (IPEDS-F:FY91–99), and Spring 2002 through Spring 2007. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, unpublished data.
Tables 32 and 33: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (tables 172 and 182), Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1970–71 through 1985–86; Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1986–87 through 2006–07.
Table 34: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 352), 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Table 35: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 355), 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Table 36: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 358), 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Table 37: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 362), 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Table 38: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 364), 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Table 39: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 366), 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2007 and Spring 2008.
Table 40: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 334), Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Institutional Characteristics of Colleges and Universities" survey, 1988–89; "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" survey, 1988; and 1998– 99 and 2008–09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDSEF: 98), "Institutional Characteristics Survey" (IPEDS-IC:98), Spring 2008, and Fall 2008. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index.
Table 41: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (tables 343 and 349), 2007–08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:08).
Table 42: Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 (table 373), U.S. Department of Education, Budget Service, unpublished tabulations. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, unpublished tabulations. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the U.S. Government, Appendix, fiscal years 1967 through 2010. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, fiscal years 1967 through 2008.