This edition of "Projections of Education Statistics" provides projections for key education statistics, including enrollment, graduates, degrees conferred, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools. Included are national data on enrollment and graduates for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2017, as well…

The "State-By-State Profile of Community Colleges," 7th edition, presents an overview of trends and statistics pertaining to community colleges. The charts in the first section of the book offer a national view of populations served, tuition and revenue data, popular degrees, and career fields. The state-by-state section provides…

The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) annually publishes a statistical report on the status and progress of education in the United States. This pamphlet provides 14 charts that represent a small sample of the 60 indicators contained in the "Condition of Education, 1995" report. The charts present…

Information about public school enrollment and the numbers of staff members employed is reported in the "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education, School Year 1996-97" from which this brief summary is derived. In 1996-97, 45.6 million students were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. Of these…

Four tables present public school enrollment data in the United States for the 1989-90 and 1990-91 school years. The first table presents total state enrollments, arranged alphabetically, for the 2 years. The total public school enrollment in 1989-90 was 40,632,578, and that in 1990-91 was 41,068,125. The second table presents, for 147 counties…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) new classification system for location of public schools and the NCES databases will provide new opportunities for rural education researchers. NCES developed a coding system called "Johnson codes" based on zip codes and Census definitions both of rural and nonrural places and of…

Selected facts and figures are provided about education in Alaska in 32 pages of brief tables. Information is provided concerning the 54 public school districts in Alaska where the average daily membership in 1989-90 reached 104,035 students. In most instances, data are presented for a span of years from the 1970's. Selected topics include:…

Curriculum suppliers, state departments of education, and home school leaders, are the sources used to estimate that between 248,500 and 353,500 school-aged children (K-12) were educated at home in the 1990-91 school year. This paper explains how this estimate was derived. It provides information on process, possible bias, alternate survey…

With its companion report, the Annual Test Report, Statistical Profiles provides comprehensive information about Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) for use by the Board of Education, school system staff, county government, and interested public. Statistical Profiles reports general information and statistical data about schools and their…

This report, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), focused on the access of 1972 high school graduates to postsecondary education and jobs in 1973-74. (Author/RK)

This report of the Education Data Project presents the findings of the Task Force on Collecting National Statistics on Dropouts, created to recommend ways of arriving at accurate, comparable, and timely state and national dropout statistics. The major recommended strategy is to agree on specific data to be collected by the states and to establish…

This report discusses the controversy over the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey, which has been conducted since 1966 by the Office for Civil Rights to gather data to guide federal enforcement of children's civil rights in the public schools. Part 1 addresses the most commonly asked questions about the survey (eg., why it exists,…

In 1967-68 the operating expenditures of the 2,370 college and university libraries covered in the survey totaled approximately $510 million. Of that total, $189 million or 37% was spent on books and other library materials, and $275 million or 54% was spent for salaries and wages. Binding and rebinding accounted for 3% of the total; all other…

This study investigated the mobility of undergraduate college students between Washington colleges and universities fall, 1971. Data were taken from Table 1 of the Higher Education Enrollment Projection (HEEP) model report forms. HEEP data reports transfers on a fall to fall basis whereas this study has recorded transfers on a spring to fall…

This technical report documents teachers', principals', and consultants' perceptions of the importance of identified consultant behaviors when installing the process-promoting program, Science--A Process Approach. Teachers' viewpoints are reported within the framework of grade level taught, age, years of experience, and degree status. Principals'…