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Krog, Hannah Anderson, Ed. – Bernan Press, 2021
This completely updated edition of "The Almanac of American Education" helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, this book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational History, Geographic Location, Enrollment Trends
Redford, Jeremy; Desrochers, Donna; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
Nearly 24 million children age 5 and under resided in the United States in 2014. Previous research has shown that about 60 percent of these children have some type of nonparental care arrangement before entering kindergarten. Studies of nonparental care arrangements are important because it is through such arrangements that many children receive…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Care Centers, Child Caregivers, Child Care
Badescu, Mircea – European Training Foundation, 2019
These Key Indicators on Education, Skills and Employment (KIESE) are a collection of statistics that are part of a broader set of indicators proposed by the European Training Foundation (ETF) to enable an assessment of developments in the field of human capital in the partner countries. They include data on vocational education and training (VET),…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Employment, Human Capital, Vocational Education
Benetsky, Megan J.; Burd, Charlynn A.; Rapino, Melanie A. – US Census Bureau, 2015
Young adults in the United States have the highest rate of migration compared with other age groups. The most common reasons for moving among all ages are job, housing, or family related. Many of these moves are made between the ages of 18 to 34, an age group marked by various life course transitions associated with moving. These include getting a…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Migration, Demography, Socioeconomic Status
Pollard, Kelvin; Jacobsen, Linda A. – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2016
This study examines state- and county-level data on population, age, race and ethnicity, housing occupancy and housing tenure, education, labor force, employment and unemployment, income and poverty, health insurance coverage, disability status, migration patterns, and veteran status from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey (ACS) for the 13…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Housing, Ethnicity, Race
Parsons, Carl – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
Attainment data on England's school pupils are more extensive in coverage, detail, quantity, accessibility and of higher quality than monitoring statistics routinely available in other European countries. These data facilitate investigation of low attainment in England's schools and its relationship to ethnicity, gender and poverty. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Poverty, Statistical Data
Meinck, Sabine; Stancel-Piatak, Agnes; Eraydin, Ipek – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The acquisition of early literacy skills prior to school can positively influence later educational outcomes. However, children from culturally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds often lack stimulating educational activities at home. This analysis provides empirical evidence for 31 education systems on the association between parental…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Siegfried, John J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
The 2007-10 growth spurt (18 percent over three years) in U.S. undergraduate economics degrees stalled out in 2011. Degrees awarded have been relatively constant over the past three years.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Economics Education, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Trends
Cahalan, Margaret; Perna, Laura – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2015
The U.S. has a core constitutional and founding commitment to equality of opportunity for all citizens. Whether viewed as an end in itself or a means to fostering increased national achievement and competitiveness, the 21st century United States conversation about equity reflects a national consensus about the many benefits of and necessity for…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Equal Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Cahalan, M.; Perna, L. W.; Yamashita, M.; Wright, J.; Santillan, S. – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2018
The purposes of this equity indicators project are to: (1) report the status of higher education equity in the United States and identify changes over time in measures of equity; (2) identify policies and practices that promote and hinder progress; and (3) illustrate the need for increased support of policies, programs, and practices that not only…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Trends
Hauptman, Arthur M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
This article seeks to make sense of the seeming contradiction that the number of degrees awarded annually and the attainment rate of the adult population in the US have both grown, even as the country has fallen behind many global competitors on the latter indicator. Two reports issued in 2012---one by the Pew Research Center, the other by the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Academic Degrees, Demography, Postsecondary Education
Carew, Diana G. – Progressive Policy Institute, 2014
Four telling facts about jobs and wages for young Americans, as explained in this policy brief, suggest a labor market recovery is coming, although it will be gradual and uneven by educational attainment. Young Americans with a postsecondary degree are more likely to be employed, but the nature of their employment suggests they are taking…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Labor Force, Economic Opportunities, Employment Opportunities
Cahalan, M.; Perna, L. W.; Yamashita, M.; Ruiz, R.; Franklin, K. – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2017
The purposes of this equity indicators project are to: (1) report the status of higher education equity in the United States and identify changes over time in measures of equity; (2) identify policies and practices that promote and hinder progress; and (3) illustrate the need for increased support of policies, programs, and practices that not only…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Trends
Nguyen, Mary; Bibo, Erin Ward; Engle, Jennifer – Education Trust, 2012
This study updates previous Education Trust briefs that looked at public, four-year colleges that successfully improved minority graduation rates and narrowed graduation-rate gaps. This new report examines which four-year, nonprofit colleges--public "and" private--have made the most improvements for Hispanic students. Because for-profit…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Group Students, Graduation Rate, College Graduates
Cahalan, Margaret; Perna, Laura; Yamashita, Mika; Ruiz, Roman; Franklin, Khadish – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2016
The purposes of this publication are: (1) to report the status of higher education equity in the United States and to identify changes over time in measures of equity; and (2) to identify policies and practices that promote and hinder progress; and to illustrate the need for increased support of policies, programs and practices that not only…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Trends