The Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) program, authorized by Congress in 2011, is designed to improve the quality of early learning and development programs for children from birth through age 5. This discretionary grant program is administered jointly by the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services…

Success and Interactive Learning's (SAIL) front-loaded retention activities and unique financial incentives have combined to improve retention, persistence, and success of first-time college students. Its effectiveness has been validated through a comparison of retention rates and aggregate quality-point averages of SAIL cohorts with those rates…

It is hard to overestimate the significance of the master planning process. The process is one of the most salient strategies that the Maryland State Department of Education utilizes for improving student achievement and closing the achievement gap. Until recently, many local school systems (LSSs) treated planning as a local endeavor that merely…

This paper profiles Maryland's test score trends through 2008-09. In 2004, 82% of non-Title I 4th graders and 61% of Title I 4th graders scored at the proficient level on the state reading test. In 2009, 90% of non-Title I 4th graders and 78% of Title I 4th graders scored at the proficient level in reading. Between 2004 and 2009, the percentage…

The Southern Regional Education Board-State Data Exchange is a one-of-a-kind regional program with 23 statewide higher education governing and coordinating board partners. The Data Exchange annually collects, compiles and publishes: (1) the most current and detailed comparative statistics on postsecondary education in the 16 SREB states; (2)…

Introduced with an overview of planned library service, the four parts of this annual report cover the Maryland State Library Network, public library services, school media services, and statistical data. The first part summarizes the activities of the state library resource center and the regional library resource centers, and provides…

The utility of data from the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) in making institutional comparisons between Maryland institutions and peer institutions is discussed. The Maryland State Board for Higher Education makes institutional comparisons as part of its studies on peer institutions. Information is provided on differences…

This collection of graphs presents data from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) about higher education in Maryland in 2003. In 2003, Maryland's population increased by 555,660, or 11.3%, and 8.4% of the entire state population was 18 to 24 years old, ranking 45th in the United States. Almost 103,500 students will graduate from high…

The council believes that the state of Maryland must increase the level of its overall financial commitment to higher education. During the past year the council conducted studies on higher education in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region, the enhancement of the predominantly black institutions of higher education, reforming the budgets for higher…

The Maryland Higher Education Loan Corporation was created by an Act of the 1963 Maryland General Assembly. After several changes in the corporation and some study of various state and private student loan plans and developing regulations and procedures, the corporation became operational in July 1965. Agreements were made with United Student Aid…

This collection of statistical data on elementary and secondary school media programs is designed to assist local education agencies in examining their library media programs according to concepts contained in "Criteria for Modern School Library Media Programs," and other publications of the Maryland Division of Library Development and…

This document contains statistics in summary form about higher education in Maryland. The first table compares Maryland data to national averages for educational achievement, enrollment, campus mix in enrollments, degrees conferred, average resident undergraduate tuition and fees, state funding, and average faculty salaries. Other tables contain…

This report shows the progress made in the hiring of African-American faculty and senior administrators between 1985 and 1995 at Maryland public higher education institutions. Notable increases have occurred in the number of African-Americans employed full-time in the ranks of professor, associate professor, and assistant professor. The number of…

This report presents tables detailing enrollment data for fall 1998 at Maryland's public and independent colleges and universities. Highlights include: (1) total headcount enrollment increased by 3,000 to 264,802, which was the greatest one-year increase since 1990; (2) nearly all the increase was due to a sharp rise in number of full-time…

This insert to the Maryland State Board's regular newsletter, "Record," takes the place of an annual report. Its contents include an overview of higher education in the state, progress of the state plan, financing of higher education, equal educational opportunity efforts, accreditation, board responses to legislative recommendations in…