This book examines the incidence and impact of school suspension and discusses its effectiveness as a disciplinary measure. Basically, this publication is intended to follow up and expand on a 1974 report on the use of school suspension, "Children out of School in America." Data for this current study were drawn from suspension data…

This publication contains statistics and projections for elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education in the United States, based on data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Included are a variety of tables presenting enrollment, teacher, graduate, and expenditure data for the years 1964-75 and…

This is one of four publications presenting higher education financial data for the fiscal year 1966-67. The other three are Current Funds Revenues and Expenditures, Property, and Student Financial Aid. This publication, Federal Funds, was developed from financial questionnaires as part of the Office of Education's higher education general…

This report provides information about the organization, students, staff, and financial resources of public elementary and secondary education agencies and schools in the United States during the 1995-96 school year. The information, taken from the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system, is presented in the body of the report, with supplementary…

This report provides the results of an annual state-level survey of student, staff, and high-school graduate counts for grades prekindergarten through 12. The data are collected from state education agencies, processed by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and then verified by the National Center for Education Statistics. The report answers three…

This publication provides a comprehensive overview of work done across all parts of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue contains short publications, summaries, and descriptions that cover all NCES publications and data products released during a 3-month period. Each issue also contains a message from the NCES on a…

Undoubtedly the most critical question now before the university and college public is the question of salaries. The avowed purpose of many of the drives for additional funds for the support of the higher institutions is the increasing of the salaries of college officers and teachers. It is well known that the general level of such salaries is far…

Presents data on school district expenditures for budget years 1996-97, 1991-92, and 1986-87, gathered by the Educational Research Service (ERS). Provides information on budgets; intragroup variations; trends in allocation patterns; personnel costs; school district revenues; and trends in revenue available from local, state, and federal sources.…

A sample of 15,686 students in grades 6 through 10 in public and private schools completed a self-report survey in 1998 of weapon carrying, weapon carrying in school, physical fighting, and being injured in a physical fight. Involvement ranged from 13 percent to 23 percent of boys and 4 percent to 11 percent of girls. Concludes bullying is a…

Uses data from a national survey to investigate how the Church of England voluntary schools influenced village church life in 1637 English and Welsh communities with populations ranging from 250 to 1,250 inhabitants. Results indicated that church school influence increased (1) church attendance of six- to nine-year-old children and adults; (2)…

The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is an integrated set of surveys concerning elementary and secondary schools and school personnel in the United States. These surveys are designed to collect data on, among other issues, the demographics of the student population, the varying demand for teachers in all regions of the nation, the educational…

The sources of public school revenues and how these dollars were spent are summarized in this report. More than $234 billion were collected for public elementary and secondary education in 1991-92 in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Revenues ranged from a high of approximately $27 billion in California to approximately $539 million in…

This paper presents a classification system that assigns each of the 85,131 public elementary and secondary schools in the United States to one of seven locale settings. The seven mutually exclusive locale designations are: (1) large city; (2) mid-size city; (3) urban fringe of large city; (4) urban fringe of mid-size city; (5) large town; (6)…

The Second National Survey of Instructional Uses of School Computers gathered information from more than 10,000 principals and computer-using teachers in a probability sample of over 2,300 U.S. elementary and secondary schools during the spring of 1985. Information was obtained through questionnaires and telephone interviews. The first of six to…

As a step in combining three of the Elementary and Secondary Education surveys of the National Center for Education Statistics to produce one database linking local education agencies, schools, and teachers, the merged procedures and collections forms were pretested. Different methods were tested by splitting the pretest sample of 220 public…