Discussion of universal secondary education and the possibility of making it compulsory. Tables provide statistics on students graduating from the eighth grade and from secondary schools during 1970-1975. (ND)

The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is a tool to help policy makers and educators address broad public policy questions. SHEF seeks to inform policy deliberations with information and perspective on financial issues and national trends. The report also provides three technical essays that discuss: a) the Higher Education Cost…

This statistics-in-brief report takes a closer look at two of kindergartners' early education experiences, preschool and kindergarten, in each of four regions of the United States (i.e., Northeast, South, Midwest, and West). This report defines early education experiences as participation in preschool, the number of hours spent in preschool, and…

"Schools at a Glance" provides, in a single document, information about enrollment, staffing, facilities, programs, outcome measures and operating costs. The information is presented for each school, with summaries for the county and by level (elementary, middle, high, and special schools). The 2004-2005 "Schools at a Glance"…

This annual report, in its eighth edition, found that after several years of growth, the EMO (Education Management Organization) industry appears to be entering a period of reconfiguration. In this year's "Profiles", the number of companies listed and the number of schools they manage are down slightly; student enrollment in EMO-managed…

Reverse transfer has recently become a topic of interest. There are concerns that some university graduates are having a difficult time finding good jobs and are enrolling in community college programs to make themselves competitive in the job market. To assess the extent of reverse transfer, the Commission conducted an analysis combining…

This issue explores enrollment strategies colleges and universities will need to serve students in the future. Resources are scarce, and the expectations of the public are changing. Students in the near future will be more numerous, more diverse, and possibly less prepared than any preceding generation. Institutions of higher education will need…

Many states are beginning to notice discontinuities in policy between the K-12 and higher education systems. One approach to easing the high school to college transition is to establish postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) programs. Currently, 32 states have laws or recently have passed legislation to establish and govern PSEO programs. The…

This paper investigates determinants of transfer enrollment within four-year institutions. After outlining probable determinants (e.g., enrollment supply and demand and financial considerations), data from a national sample of institutions from 1984-1997 are used to examine whether these factors explain the composition of a school's enrollment.…

This series tracks the performance of Chicago, Illinois, public high school students from 1993 to 2000 using data from the last 2 years of Phase 1 reform as a baseline for looking at the first 5 years of Phase 2. This report tracks changes in high school enrollment and explores possible causes. Analyses of data from various sources show that the…

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) is required by statute to prepare plans under which the state-supported institutions of higher education shall constitute a coordinating system. To do so, SCHEV must first assess the current state of the system and make predictions about its future. This needs assessment evaluates, for the…

This report, third in a series on education finance, examines U.S. education budgets recently passed by state legislatures and contrasts them with proposed gubernatorial budgets. The generally strong economy allowed state legislatures to increase total state FY 1998 education spending by over $2 billion (1.5 percent) from governors' own proposed…

Cuesta College's (California) Five-year Student Characteristics and Enrollment Trends (1996-2000) report provides tables and figures that show student demography and enrollment status. Tables 1 through 11 present data for the entire college. Table 1 shows that enrollment at Cuesta College continues to increase and is now at an all-time high of…

The document contains tables displaying enrollment data for all spring 1999 sessions at Austin Community College (Texas), with comparisons to the same data for all spring 1998 sessions. The numbers for headcount, demographic, credit hour, contact hour and FTSE data reported were obtained by modifying the mainframe SPSS report to include…

This research brief examines the destination of Miami-Dade County public high school graduates the year following their graduation. For 1998-99, 58% continued into public postsecondary education, with 37% (375) enrolling at Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) (Florida), 9.6% at Florida International University (FIU), and 10.4% at other colleges…