Presents data tables relevant to Maryland higher education, including student charges at community colleges, local aid per full-time student at community colleges, SAT scores of entering freshmen, graduation rates, state aid to independent institutions, and enrollment and completion rates at private career schools. (EV)

Features more than 80 charts and tables exploring the condition of New England's higher education enterprise. Data focus on eight broad areas: demography, admissions and enrollment, degrees and educational attainment, student migration, retention and graduation, financing higher education, university research, and faculty. (EV)

Presents data on revenues and expenditures of higher education institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for fiscal year 1996. Tables break revenues down by source, and expenditures by purpose. (SLD)

Presents several tables of "top ten" data related to educational facilities, including districts with the largest enrollments, states with the most teachers, number of school buildings in large cities, expenditures for public K-12 schools, states with the highest and lowest per-pupil expenditures, and states with the highest average…

Summarizes important education news in six sections, highlighting "main events" (from politics to privatization); (unfavorable) international comparisons of mathematics and science proficiency, reading literacy, and computer usage; common measures documenting kids' rising distress levels; school leaders' demographics and prime worries; rising…

Fall 1983 enrollments in America's 50 largest school systems, and percent changes from 1982 to 1983, 1981 to 1982, and 1971 to 1983 are offered in an ERS statistical trends analysis. (KS)

Discusses results of a comprehensive nationwide survey conducted in the summers of 1982 and 1983 on the number and brands of microcomputers in schools. Findings show a 118 percent increase in the number of schools using microcomputers, with Apple the most popular brand. (TE)

Reproduces selected text, charts, and tables from the National Center for Education Statistics 1982 report, "The Condition of Education," by Nancy Dearman and Valena Plisko. In the 1980s the numbers of preprimary and elementary school children are projected to rise while the secondary school age group will shrink. (Author/JM)

Nine graphs and tables present data on past and projected preschool enrollment, birth rates, participation by women in the work force, and effects of preschool programs on first grade achievement. (PGD)

Discusses the trends in journalism program enrollments, using the 1978 figures from an annual survey of journalism schools. (RL)

Examines public high school science enrollment trends in the state of Iowa. Presents enrollment data since 1978. (YP)

Using data from the "Gallup Polls of the the Public's Attitude Toward Education," this study examines how certain socioeconomic and demographic characteristics (parent/nonparent, education level, age, gender, city size, religious preference, and geographic region) relate to a community's assessment of public school education. Includes…

Summarizes 1970-85 educational trends and projections. Highlights increasing preschool, minority, and public elementary school enrollment, declining numbers of public elementary schools, increasing numbers of private and middle schools, fewer teachers (until the late 1980s), higher teacher salaries, growing dependency on state revenues, and…

Provides statistics of 1988 engineering and engineering technology enrollments surveyed by the Engineering Manpower Commission. Presented are tables showing the 10-year trend, enrollment by curriculum, and enrollment by schools for all students. (YP)

Each year, "Education Vital Signs" takes a look at how demographics, finance, test scores, and other important school-related trends are changing across the United States. Information is presented in state-by-state charts broken down into three areas-achievement, finances, and school and classroom characteristics-across the nation's six regions.…