It is hard to overestimate the significance of the master planning process. The process is one of the most salient strategies that the Maryland State Department of Education utilizes for improving student achievement and closing the achievement gap. Until recently, many local school systems (LSSs) treated planning as a local endeavor that merely…

"Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2008" provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. The information presented in this report is intended to serve as a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they can develop effective programs and policies aimed at violence and school crime prevention. The…

Policy makers confronted with the need to introduce health and safety regulations often wonder how to value the benefits of these regulations. One way that a monetary value could be placed on reductions in health risks, including risk of death, is through understanding how people are compensated for the different risks they take. While there is an…

This note shows that the dynamics of the dispersion of educational attainment across OECD countries in the period 1960-1990 differ enormously depending on the dataset used, as do the results of the test of significance in the change of the cross-country standard deviation of schooling years between subperiods. The three datasets studied (the…

Some of the growing number of government documents containing or concerning statistical data are described. Over 50 titles are listed with ordering information. (PF)

This first edition proposes standard names, phrases, and definitions in selected areas of terminology needed for the communication of basic criminal justice information and statistics between states and at the national level. Introductory pages explain the technical approach used in selecting terminology. Over 260 alphabetical entries contain…

Statistical tables of data on business libraries in Japan cover staff, space, collections, budgets, committees, equipment, technical process, services, clientele, public relations, copying, and association affiliations. (LS)

This document was prepared by the Privacy and Security Staff, National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service, in conjunction with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) Office of General Counsel, to explain and discuss the requirements of the LEAA regulations governing confidentiality of research and statistical data.…

This statistical handbook describes the growth in numbers of doctorates granted in various fields and corresponding growth in numbers of colleges and universities; delineates patterns of doctoral education in the US and shows changes that occur in transition from academic to professional work; describes US doctorate recipients of foreign origin…

The 1971 current state of the audiovisual communications industry in the U.S.A. is summarized with dollar figures of sales broken down for different categories, and brief consideration of current trends. (RH)

A "portrait" of a child abuser based on studies of the 60,000 cases of child abuse reported in the United States each year. (MF)

The Information Retrieval Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois regularly calculates certain statistics associated with the MARC II data base. Statistics pertaining to data element occurrence, data element length, and distribution of records by Dewey Decimal division and Library of Congress class code are given. (Author)

In 26 states, the maximum weekly benefit is now at least half of the statewide average weekly wage; in 4 states, the maximum is two-thirds. (Editor)