"Ohio Education by the Numbers" offers busy policy makers, journalists, and civic and business leaders simple and easy-to-use vital statistics about Ohio's schools and the students they serve. The facts and figures contained within offer an overview of Ohio's students; where they go to school; their achievement on national and state…

Policymakers aiming to close the well-documented achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students have increasingly turned their attention to issues of teacher quality. A number of studies have demonstrated that teachers are inequitably distributed across student subgroups by input measures like experience and qualifications, as well…

This pocket-sized compilation of statistical information covers prekindergarten through graduate school to describe the current American education scene. The "Mini-Digest" is designed as an easy reference for materials found in detail in the "Digest of Education Statistics". These volumes include selections of data from many…

This study responds to a request from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to analyze National Board certification among high school teachers in understudied subject areas and locales to help fill gaps in the research literature. The authors also were asked to use multiple indicators of performance. The research team selected two…

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) was first launched in 1997 as a periodic longitudinal study of program performance. Successive nationally representative samples of Head Start children, their families, classrooms, and programs provide descriptive information on the population served; staff qualifications, credentials,…

The 2017 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 53rd in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field…

The Annual Condition of Education Report provides a wide range of state-level data, including shifts in student populations and demographics, teacher salaries and characteristics, student achievement results, and school financial information. A few examples of the categories presented in this 22nd edition report include: (1) Enrollment; (2) Early…

This biannual statistical abstract of the higher education system in Israel provides updated, comprehensive, detailed data as well as a chapter summarizing and analyzing the main findings using international comparisons. Chapter 1 contains the summary of findings. Some of the key findings are: (1) most undergraduates are holders of Israeli…

This document is a collection of profiles of Wake County (North Carolina) Public School System schools in the 1993-94 school year. Profiles have been created to help administrators as they present and analyze information about their schools. The four-page profile of each school contains information describing: (1) the school facility; (2) the…

This user's manual has been produced to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the first follow-up teacher component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). The teacher component provides teacher information that can be used to analyze the behaviors and outcomes of the…

To ascertain possible differences and similarities in learning styles of Cree, Dene (Chipewyan), and Metis students and the instructional styles of Native and non-Native teachers in northern Saskatchewan, Canfield's Instructional Styles Inventory was administered to 280 grade 7-9 students (81 Cree, 65 Dene, and 134 Metis) and 79 teachers (15…

This report presents the results of a survey of nearly all (98.5%) of the California institutions of higher education that train adults to teach children under the age of five, including associate, bachelor's, master's and PhD programs. Data is presented on program, student, and faculty characteristics as well as language supports for students and…

This fifth edition of the "Mini-Digest" provides a pocket-sized compilation of statistical information covering the field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. This information is found in much greater detail in the "Digest of Education Statistics,""The Condition of Education," and "Youth Indicators." The statistical…

Tables of statistics are provided to portray education at all levels in Taiwan from approximately 1950 to 1990. The Taiwanese school system, academic year/schedule, current situation of schools, preschool education, compulsory education, secondary education, senior high schools, senior vocational high schools, higher education, social education,…

Designed to provide a backdrop for institutional planning and management decisions, this data book highlights key institutional trends and operating characteristics of the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP). Section I offers an overview of the evolution of the college during its 20-year history, illustrating the changing profile of CCP…