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…

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…

Compilation of Illinois public library statistics for 1976-1977. Tables list population, staff, resources, and finances alphabetically by library location. Directories include public libraries, libraries listed by county, library systems, and the Illinois State Library. An index of librarians, libraries, and areas served is attached. (KP)

A supplement to a study of public library usage in Illinois, this report presents the television viewing, radio listening, and newspaper reading habits of the respondents in its survey. Findings for each question are shown for the total sample, and in some instances they are also shown separately for segments of the population. Similar charts for…

This report analyzes and documents trends of teacher supply and demand in Illinois, based on data collected by the Illinois Office of Education on the number of educational personnel being prepared and employed by educational institutions in the state. In large part, the report is an update on Illinois teacher supply and demand data previously…

This Management Information Systems Manual for the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) provides basic information for submitting data to the ICCB. The manual is published every two years, and an addendum is published in the off years. It highlights and summarizes information from other documents, without being meant to replace those documents.…

This report presents, in tabular form, estimates of the number of students with disabilities projected to exit the Illinois public school system after the 1998-99 school year. Data are provided for each Illinois county by number of students, type of disability, and reasons for exit. The same data are provided for students under the Department of…

A survey of 301 Illinois special libraries was conducted in 1982 to determine the number and type of statistics collected by these libraries and the ways in which these data are used. The mean number of statistics collected was reported as 10, including both technical and public service measures. Measures kept regularly by at least 50% of the…

The rate of increase of Illinois junior college enrollment has decreased for the past several years. One reason for this may lie in the fact that the consumption of a service has its greatest rate of increase in the early stages of the supply of the service. As the unmet demand for it becomes satisfied, additional consumption decreases, approaches…

This publication presents data gathered in a survey of the impact of collective bargaining on Illinois school districts. In September 1974, the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed a three-part questionnaire to the superintendent of each of its 932 member school districts. Completed questionnaires were returned by 739 districts,…

The fifth annual summary of statistics for 14 state university libraries in Illinois is presented. The bulk of this article consists of data compiled in fall 1975 on library collections, staffing, wages, operating expenses, library loan transactions, and library physical facilities. Data on professional staffs are broken down by sex, highest…

This report of selected statistical data on various factors pertaining to occupational education in Illinois was compiled after a Vocational Education Study Committee of seventeen members assigned the task of developing a master plan for the preparation of personnel in occupational education discovered that the lack of necessary information made…

This publication presents data gathered in a survey of the impact of collective bargaining on Illinois school districts. In September 1974, the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed a three-part questionnaire to the superintendent of each of its 932 member school districts. Completed questionnaires were returned by 739 districts,…

Kishwaukee College conducted a survey of DeKalb County and the Rochelle Township High School District in Illinois during July and August 1971 which (1) determined the area's current and potential manpower resources; (2) identified and described the settled-in Spanish speaking population of the area; (3) determined the area's existing and potential…

The Foster Care Data Archive is a five-state database that contains foster care career histories for all children who have been placed in a state-supervised substitute-care living arrangement. The Archive was started with five participating states--California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Texas--which together provide services to almost half…