The Iowa Department of Education collects information on joint enrollment from Iowa's 15 community colleges. Jointly enrolled students are high school students enrolled in community college credit coursework. Most jointly enrolled students enroll through Senior Year Plus programs such as Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) and concurrent…

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is an epidemiologic surveillance system that was established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help monitor the prevalence of behaviors that not only influence youth health, but also put youth at risk for the most significant health and social problems that can occur during…

The 2015 Minnesota Legislature enacted a state postsecondary educational attainment goal: 70 percent of Minnesota adults (age 25 to 44) will have attained a postsecondary certificate or degree by 2025 ("Minnesota Laws 2015 Chapter 69, Article 3, Section 6"). To achieve this goal, Minnesota must address disparities across the educational…

This paper explores the nation's changing child population based on data from the 2010 census. While the number of U.S. children increased only slightly, the demographic shifts within the population were considerable. Some areas of the country (Nevada and Texas) and some demographic groups (including children of mixed race) grew significantly,…

The "Montana K-12 & School Choice Survey" project, commissioned by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research, Inc. (BRI), measures Montana registered voters' familiarity and views on a range of K-12 education topics and school choice reforms. The author and his colleagues report response levels…

The Ohio Adult Literacy Survey, like the National Adult Literacy Survey of which it is a part, aimed to characterize adults' literacy skills in English based on their performance on diverse tasks that reflect the types of materials and demands they encounter in their daily lives. To gather information on the literacy skills of adults in Ohio,…

A description of the State of Arizona and its educational system is presented as a working paper in a final report by the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. Facts about the state include the following: indications are that the present growth in Arizona will continue for at least a decade more;…

Census Bureau data have traditionally focused on national estimates of the numbers of children in organized child care facilities using various household surveys. In contrast, this paper presents data on the characteristics of child care businesses for individual states from the Census of Service Industries. Although focusing primarily on the most…

The first in a three-volume set on the geographic origins of students attending institutions of the State University of New York during the fall 1988 term includes three distinct types of summaries and uses the individual institution as the unit of analysis. It includes all credit course students and all institutions of the State University…

This report of teacher supply and demand in Florida looks at measures of teacher shortages during the 1984-85 school year, compares the projected supply of teachers by subject field with the numbers needed during 1986-87, and then projects the demand for teachers through the end of the century. As seen in prior years, some fields showed a much…

The report summarizes the main findings of the 1978-79 Louisiana State Survey of Hearing Impaired and Deaf-Blind Children and Youth, conducted by the Office of Demographic Studies at Gallaudet College. The survey included information on 1,470 hearing impaired students receiving special educational services in the state. Of this total, 111 of the…

For 21 years the Annual Condition of Education Report has helped the Iowa Department of Education meet its goal, providing valuable information on everything from enrollment to student performance, from the teachers to finances to the demographics. The data for this annual report are presented according to: (1) Background Demographics; (2)…

This fifth annual report is intended to provide an accurate and current compilation of enrollment data for the 22 institutions in the Washington community college system. Data are reported in 25 tables, many of which contain historical enrollment data which appeared in earlier reports, with comparable data added for the 1974-75 academic year.…

The third in a three-volume set reporting the results of an annual survey of the geographic origins of students attending institutions of the State University of New York (SUNY) during the Fall 1988 term displays enrollment trends in tables presented in three parts. Part I presents data from 1959 through 1988 with data provided by individual…

A profile is provided of the demographic and academic characteristics of over 1.2 million California community college students who were actively enrolled as of the first attendance accounting period in the fall 1986 term. Sections I and II present enrollments by district and college, focusing on number and percent of full-time, part-time, and…