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Mulligan, Gail M.; Brimhall, DeeAnn; West, Jerry – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
This report is the latest in a series of NCES reports on young children's nonparental care and education arrangements. It presents the most recent data available for children under the age of 6, taken from the 2001 administration of the ECPP. Interviews were conducted with parents or guardians of 6,741 children under age 6 who were not yet…
Descriptors: Child Care, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Age Differences
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Princiotta, Daniel; Bielick, Stacey – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report represents the latest survey information from the National Center for Education Statistics on the prevalence of homeschooling in the United States. This document uses the Parent and Family Involvement Survey of the 2003 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) to estimate the number and percentage of homeschooled students in…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Home Schooling, Student Characteristics, Family Environment
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Greenberg, Elizabeth; Dunleavy, Eric; Kutner, Mark – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) assessed the English literacy of incarcerated adults for the first time since 1992. The assessment was administered to approximately 1,200 inmates (ages 16 and older) in state and federal prisons, as well as to approximately 18,000 adults (ages 16 and older) living in households. Three types of…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Adult Literacy, Institutionalized Persons
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DeBell, Matthew; Chapman, Chris – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report examines the use of computers and the Internet by American children enrolled in nursery school and students in kindergarten through grade 12. The report examines the overall rate of use (that is, the percentage of individuals in the population who are users), the ways in which students use the technologies, where the use occurs (home,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Income
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Lurkus, A. D.; Rampey, B. D.; Donahue, P. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report presents results for three years of trial school-district-level reading assessments in NAEP at grades 4 and 8. Five urban public-school districts voluntarily participated in NAEP in 2002 and 2003: Atlanta City, City of Chicago School District 299, Houston ISD, Los Angeles Unified, and New York City Public Schools. In 2003 four…
Descriptors: Grade 8, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking, Urban Schools