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Chingos, Matthew; McPherson, Michael – Forum for the Future of Higher Education, 2011
A large majority of full-time students pursuing bachelor's degrees at four-year colleges and universities in the United States attend public universities. The struggle, therefore, to improve educational attainment and reduce the marked disparities in outcomes that lead to greater inequalities of all kinds will take place mainly within our nation's…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Change, Federal Government
Foster, Emery M.; Herlihy, Lester B.; Comstock, Lula M.; Isdell, Julia E.; Choate, Blache K.; Smith, Rose Marie; Deffenbaugh, Walter S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
This report presents statistics of city public-school systems for the year 1933-34. It also presents, in connection with the text, data on certain points to show trends within the past 10 years, and especially within the past 4 years when the effects of the depression were being felt by the schools. In previous reports statistics for cities…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Annual Reports, School Surveys, School Statistics
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1905
The Commissioner's introduction to Volume 1 includes state school system statistics. Chapter I addresses vacation schools, playgrounds, and settlements, with discussion of poor children in major cities, playground conditions, playground social conditions, play psychology, and settlement-movement history. Subsequent chapters cover laws concerning…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Vacation Programs, Playgrounds, Urban Youth