This document describes, analyzes, and interprets international developments reflected in public educational expenditures. The report includes (1) a survey of educational expenditures of 35 UNESCO member countries between 1950 and 1965 in relation to other aggregate data, (2) a description and interpretation of shifts in the composition of total…

Medical schools in the United States are described in terms of their finances, clinical facilities, students, faculties, and curricula, and the distribution of the schools according to these variables. The report is based on data drawn from the Institutional Profile System maintained by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The current…

The financial, political, and faculty-administration attitudinal constraints in the state suggest that certain voucher demonstration projects would serve several purposes: (1) produce beneficial results for a segment of postsecondary students and institutions; (2) be structured to be acceptable to the educational community; and (3) provide the…

Nine sets of annual data on State school finances are used to test a theory of expenditure determination by public school districts. The results support implications of the theory regarding effects of personal income, State and federal aid, the relative price of education, the pupil/population ratio, and enrollment growth on per pupil spending. A…

The House Subcommittee on Select Education asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to study the condition of information on education in the United States during selected years between 1973 and 1986. The resulting report covers three areas: (1) the nature and amount of federally sponsored information on education; (2) the quality of such…

A national survey of 7,261 medical students, representing 15 percent of total enrollment at each of 110 medical schools addressed specific questions including: (1) Which students expressed a need for financial aid?; (2) do the neediest students receive financial aid?; (3) To what extent do students intending to serve in primary care specialties…

One of three papers commissioned as part of the Postsecondary Education Core Design Project of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), one of this study's purposes was to identify and set priorities for postsecondary education decisionmakers in the area of financial viability in postsecondary institutions. Another purpose was to…

The document responds to the recognized need for a central source of statistical and general information regarding Federal training activities. The report is divided into four major sections. Part one summarizes statistical data regarding the volume, types, sources, and costs of training provided to Federal employees during Fiscal Year 1973. The…

As part of its congressional mandate to collect, analyze, and report statistics on the condition of education in the United States, the National Center for Education Statistics conducted the Survey of Classes That Serve Children Prior to Kindergarten in Public Schools, the first national data collection focused exclusively on prekindergarten…