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US Department of Education, 2009
While multiple factors contribute to student success in primary and secondary school, student access to qualified, competent and motivated teachers is critical. Preparing a highly qualified teaching workforce is a major national challenge, but the nation is making significant strides. The 2001 amendments to the "Elementary and Secondary…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Beginning Teachers
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Dion, Gloria S.; Haberstroh, Jeff G.; Dresher, Amy R. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This report focuses on the performance of fourth-and eighth-grade students in Puerto Rico in various mathematics content areas on the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics. The NAEP mathematics assessment was administered to public school students in Puerto Rico for the first time in 2003. Although NAEP had…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Gender Differences, National Competency Tests, Mathematics Achievement
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Baxter, G.P.; Bleeker, M.M.; Waits, T.L.; Salvucci, S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This report presents highlights of the results for fourth-and eighth-grade students in Puerto Rico for the 2003 and 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics. The NAEP mathematics assessment was administered to public school students in Puerto Rico for the first time in 2003. Although NAEP had previously administered…
Descriptors: Statistical Significance, Public Schools, National Competency Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Mulvey, Patrick J.; Nicholson, Starr – Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, 2007
The Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics has been collecting Enrollment and Degree data for over four decades. This departmental census goes out in the fall of each year to all physics and astronomy departments in the US and Puerto Rico. This report is based on data collected in the fall of 2005 from the 764 departments…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Physics, College Graduates, Graduate Study