The National Longitudinal School Database (NLSD) comprises three files, making up a near-census of all schools and districts in the United States from school years 1990-91 to 2019-20. The three files are the Public School File, Private School File, and District File. As evident by the titles, the first two files report data at the school-level for…

Describes the campus security Web site of the U.S. Department of Education as flawed because many college officials found reporting instructions confusing or reporting requirements too time consuming. Data, designed to give information about the safety of institutions, are often misleading and difficult to use for comparisons. (SLD)

This report discusses the program and plans of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for 1979-80. The publication provides an overview of the major program activities for fiscal year 1979 and plans for 1980. The center provides data to monitor trends in education and address key policy issues. These data are supplemented by special…

State education agencies, once passive, have assumed an important role in the collection and dissemination of education-related data for use at all levels of government and for a variety of purposes. (Author)

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) new classification system for location of public schools and the NCES databases will provide new opportunities for rural education researchers. NCES developed a coding system called "Johnson codes" based on zip codes and Census definitions both of rural and nonrural places and of…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects statistics on the condition of education in the United States, analyzes and reports the meaning and significance of those statistics, and assists state and local education agencies in improving their statistical systems. This report discusses the center's work in some detail, including…

This report discusses the 1980-81 program and plans of the National Center for Education Statistics that involve collection and dissemination of data monitoring trends in education, and address key policy issues. The report identifies and describes the regular and special surveys being conducted in the areas of elementary and secondary education,…

During the past 10 years of collecting school data, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) has received a 100 percent response rate from member schools, according to this overview of enrollment trends and statistics reporting in Catholic schools. The data are compiled into a yearly directory, "Catholic Schools in America,"…

Explains the procedures and materials involved in converting a high school's punch-card system to an online database. Identifies the capacities of the new system and highlights its advantages. (ML)

This publication gives a comprehensive overview of work done across all parts of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue includes short publications, summaries, and descriptions that cover all NCES publications and data products released during a 3-month period. To further stimulate ideas and discussion, each issue also…

This book contains reports of two projects--one in Ethiopia, one in Palestine--that integrated a Geographical Information System (GIS) into the educational planning process. (A GIS is a computer program that combines two databases: numerical data such as traditional data on schools, teachers, and students; and geographic data such as the location…

Since 1969-70, the National Catholic Educational Association has published a statistical report on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. This year's report contains the core school enrollment and staffing data from the Association's database and includes data on Chapter 1 services, extended care programs, school boards of…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects statistics on the condition of education in the United States, analyzes and reports the meaning and significance of these statistics, and assists states and local education agencies in improving their statistical systems. This publication contains a summary of all recent data collections…

Selected program evaluations through the GENeric Evaluation SYStem (GENESYS) of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District are reviewed. GENESYS, implemented in 1988-89, consists basically of a database methodology assessing the school system's longitudinal databases and a set of computer programs using the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) to…

The Missouri School Profile System is composed of six profiles drawn from pre-existing databases, with the data organized in a manner useful to school districts for comparison purposes and returned to school districts for their use. Use of such a system should reduce or eliminate the need for special school district studies of finance or pupil…