This report summarizes five-year global GMAT testing trends and includes: (1) GMAT exams taken by citizenship; (2) GMAT exams taken by gender; (3) Mean age of GMAT examinees; (4) Mean GMAT Total score; and (5) GMAT score-sending breakdowns by program type (MBA, non-MBA master's, and doctoral/other), TY2014. This data brief can help build candidate…

This report summarizes five-year global GMAT testing trends and includes: (1) GMAT exams taken by residence; (2) GMAT exams taken by gender; (3) Mean age of GMAT examinees; (4) Mean GMAT Total score; and (5) GMAT score-sending breakdowns by program type (MBA, non-MBA master's, and doctoral/other), TY 2014. This data brief can be used to help build…

The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing series of national surveys of American adolescents and adults that has provided the nation with a vital window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illegal drug use, alcohol use, tobacco use, anabolic steroid use, and psychotherapeutic drug use. For more than a third of a…

The results of a 1976 study of American whites' attitudes toward racial integration of blacks into U.S. society are reported. Improvement in racial attitudes, and the continuities and discontinuities in the rate of improvement are discussed. Some of the causes for the trends observed are examined. (Author/GC)

This report presents a detailed picture of trends in the segregation of Hispanic children in American urban public schools from 1970 to 1974. A companion volume reports on trends in black school segregation from 1970 to 1974. This volume shows both the broad regional and national trends of segregation of the nation's second largest minority group,…

The Office of Education has long been interested in the development of public libraries as agencies to further the educational progress of the nation. Beginning with 1870, it has issued at intervals statistical compilations on the status of the various types of libraries. Marking a change in that program, the comprehensive collection covering…

The expansion of doctoral education in the western United States is discussed. Changes that have occurred in the number and type of institutions conferring the doctorate degree and in the number of degrees conferred in each field of study are documented. The number of doctorate degrees, percentage increase over the previous period, and percentage…

The third of a series on higher education enrollment patterns and trends in New York State for 1974-76, this report is aimed primarily at an audience concerned with policy analysis related to college enrollments. The first section presents interstate residence and migration data and views New York State within the national context. The section…

This report summarizes data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which has been monitoring the scholastic achievement of America's 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds since 1969. The 1990 NAEP trend data provide several ways of describing changes in student achievement in each curriculum area. For science, mathematics, and reading,…

This paper, one of a series, presents findings from a Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's project titled, "Higher Education and the Economy of the West," that was undertaken to analyze the impact of economic and social trends on the role of higher education in the West. Included are analyses of demographic, workforce,…

This annual statistical survey provides profile and trend data on undergraduate and freshmen enrollment at the 3,177 two-year and four-year colleges and universities in the United States which responded to a College Board questionnaire. The report is arranged in two parts, with parallel sets of data tables. In Part 1, tables 1-23 present national…