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Corinne Thatcher Day – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Since data collection technologies has become a part of daily life, measurement and data requirements now permeate many state mathematics standards, beginning as early as kindergarten and extending through high school. For example, the Standards for Mathematical Content, recommend that kindergarteners "describe and compare measurable…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, High School Students
Glasier, Victoria; Palmer, Jessica L. – Geography Teacher, 2019
Using current and historical data, the U.S. Census Bureau offers geography teachers activities with resources to use in the classroom. The activities are aligned to the National Geography Standards (2012) and provide real-world data examples while teaching concepts such as environmental changes and population changes. In a geography activity for…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Census Figures, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Headle, Barbara – Geography Teacher, 2019
Historians have long appreciated the value of the U.S. Census as a source of statistical data for studying nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history. However, in ways that many other primary source documents do not, the census reflects and addresses social, political, and economic issues on national, state, and community levels…
Descriptors: United States History, Census Figures, Slavery, History Instruction
Zhang, Wanqing; Eshghi, Marziye – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Regional differences in ASD inpatient care remain understudied. We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to examine contributory causes and potential determinants associated with regional variations in ASD hospitalizations. We performed univariate and multivariate analyses to identify differences in ASD hospitalizations across four U.S. Census…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Census Figures
Jamie M. Carroll; Douglas N. Harris; Anjana Nair; Emilia Nordgren – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
The National Longitudinal School Database (NLSD) comprises three files, making up a near-census of all schools and districts in the United States from school years 1990-91 to 2019-20. The three files are the Public School File, Private School File, and District File. As evident by the titles, the first two files report data at the school-level for…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Databases, School Statistics, Census Figures
Scheuerell, Scott – Social Studies, 2021
The author describes how high school students can use Google Tour Builder to track the impact of local Civil War veterans by conducting research with primary and secondary sources. In the article, there is a description of an example from Larned, Kansas where more than one hundred Civil War veterans settled a community on the plains. Digitized…
Descriptors: Social Studies, History Instruction, War, Veterans
Yiu, Ho Lam – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
Social bonds and social organization theory are combined to examine schools' roles in regulating youth gang involvement in the context of community changes--an integrated approach to analyze psychological and sociological influences simultaneously. A subsample (N = 269) from Gottfredson et al.'s (A national study of delinquency prevention in…
Descriptors: School Role, Juvenile Gangs, Community Change, Social Theories
Ee-Ling Low – TESOL Journal, 2025
Singapore is an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse nation-state that has always practiced deliberate language policy and planning. The bilingual education policy, introduced shortly after the young nation's independence has led to the emergence of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
Forsyth, Hannah – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: This paper explores the economic and social effects of human capital investment in the 20th century. As well as drawing on census data and statistical yearbooks in Australia and Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the paper develops its argument by an intersection of scholarly work in sociology, economics and the history of education to consider the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Economic Factors, Social Influences, Land Settlement
Aspinall, Peter J. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2018
The 'mixed' group, officially recognised in the 2001 Census, is one of the most rapidly growing ethnic groups in Britain. Although 'mixed' categorisation was added to ethnic coding in NHS datasets, our knowledge of health patterns for this population is meagre. Data quality problems remain a key obstacle, including poor reproducibility of the data…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Mental Health
Mollet, Amanda L.; Lackman, Brian R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2018
Asexuality was absent from the sexual orientation lexicon as recently as a decade ago (Bigio, Davenport, Pinder, Chevigny, & Tucker, 2011). However visibility of asexual people has been growing. For example, Asexuality Visibility and Education Network's (AVEN, n.d.b) first Community Census in 2011 received 3,430 responses while responses to…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Minority Groups, Sexual Identity
Phillips, Beth M.; Koon, Sharon; Folch, David C. – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
Evidence suggests that participation in high quality early childhood education supports the school readiness of young children. Therefore, it is important to understand whether children from different geographic regions, such as urban and rural neighborhoods, have comparable access to high quality programs. This study explores whether neighborhood…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, School Readiness
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
A primary goal of North Carolina's Quality Rating Improvement System is to encourage early childhood education sites to maintain and improve their programmatic and educational quality. Because higher quality sites can better support young children's school readiness, it is important for education leaders to understand the complex factors that may…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, School Readiness
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
This appendix accompanies the report, "Are Neighborhood Factors Associated with the Quality of Early Childhood Education in North Carolina? REL 2021-034." It describes the study's primary and supplemental sample selection procedures, how eligible postsecondary institutions for the study were identified, geocoding procedures, how counts…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, School Readiness
Cohen, Philip N. – Educational Leadership, 2017
Drawing on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the author highlights the increasing diversity of family structures, roles, and trajectories. Teachers, he writes, need to be able to talk about "the family" without imposing a narrow definition of family structure. At the same time, teachers need to celebrate the common values that underlie…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Family Structure, Family Relationship, Family Life