This report measures the impact of the baby-boom echo--the 25 percent increase in the U.S. birth rate that began in the mid-1970s and reached its peak in 1990 with the birth of 4.1 million children. The paper reports that a record 53.2 million students will attend school in the next decade and that college enrollment will rise to a record 14.9…

The purpose of this report is to describe characteristics of students enrolled at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) (Florida) campuses and centers during the fall 2000 term and to highlight enrollment changes. Campus and center enrollment includes any student taking a course at that location, while college-wide data give an unduplicated count of…

This report describes the current status of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) (referred to in combination as the Summer Nutrition Programs), federal entitlement programs providing support for state and local efforts to offer low-income children nutritious summer meals and snacks during supervised…

This report provides policymakers with information necessary to demonstrate that postsecondary education is an effective route from poverty to true self-sufficiency and prosperity for low-income women. It discusses the impact of the 1996 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) statute and the TANF reauthorization bill, the Personal…

The first report in this issue, "Economic Segregation of Higher Education Opportunity 1973 to 2001," describes the way higher education enrollments in U.S. colleges and universities are rapidly being sorted by family income and social class. Students born into different economic class backgrounds are increasingly concentrated in distinct…

The effect of interracial contact in public schools on the enrollment of whites has been an important concern in assessments of desegregation since the 1970s. It has been feared that "white flight," meaning exit from or avoidance of racially mixed public schools, could undermine the racial contact that desegregation policy seeks to enhance. This…

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) commissioned a review of the available literature on the impact of the introduction of means-tested contributions to tuition fees for full-time undergraduates from 1998-1999. The overall objective was to provide evidence to assist the HEFCE's ongoing assessment of future levels of student…

This report is based on the set of Management Information System (MIS) Summaries of Student Characteristics reported by Mendocino College from fall 1992 to fall 1998. Basic student characteristics data are annually reported by each district to the California Community Colleges in the format established by the statewide MIS. An overall review of…

The report is designed to present relevant demographic and program data on the provision of special education services to eligible students in Washington State. Program decisions in special education must be data-driven to enable to adequately respond to the accountability concerns inherent in No Child Left Behind and other important federal and…

The Superintendent's Annual Report on School Performance and Improvement in Hawaii is one of three reports in the state's system of school accountability. This report contains collective data on Hawaii schools for school year 2002-03, showing trends over time and, where appropriate, comparisons with data from other states. The Superintendent's…

Is Ohio losing its best and brightest minds to other states? Is the state investing hundreds of millions of dollars in public higher education every year only to see graduates move out of state upon graduating in search of greener pastures? The Governor's Commission on Higher Education and the Economy (CHEE) commissioned a report about this issue…

This bulletin presents tables in summarized form of the statistics of public and of private kindergartens in the various States. The detailed statistics, which are summarized in Tables 3 and 4 are given for individual cities and towns in the report on statistics of city school systems for 1919-20. This summarized report is prepared for the use of…

Paper compares the opportunities lower income students have in gaining admission as college freshmen with the actual college enrollment patterns. (RK)

This article examines male and female enrollment trends for the final two years of secondary schooling in Australia for the years 1970-79. Enrollment distributions in the various mathematics courses available in each state are presented, and possible reasons for the trends are identified. (MNS)

While the number of students will decline in the next 20 years, their variety in age, background, and ability will increase. The challenge of the 1980s is less to teach these students subject matter than to teach them to use the tools available to find their own paths in a changing society. (MSE)