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Herzog, Serge – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
To address the mounting concern about the validity of student self-reported data, this study relies on official matriculation records to gauge the effect of classroom diversity on student dropout risk. Using panel data to track the 4-year dropout risk of a cohort of new first-year students (N = 3545) at a public research university, we employ a…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropout Characteristics, At Risk Students, College Freshmen
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Hailey, Chantal A. – Educational Policy, 2022
Families indicate that fit and safety are priorities in school selections. It is not clear, however, whether school racial composition shapes families' perceptions of anticipated school belonging. Using a survey experiment with students and parents actively choosing NYC schools, I find that families expressed racialized judgments of belonging.…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Sense of Community, School Choice, School Demography
Walk, Ted – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many school districts in the United States are facing growing concerns regarding the shortage of qualified candidates for teaching positions. This problem has existed for some time, and its deleterious effects are exacerbated in school districts that have significant teacher turnover. School districts with higher teacher retention can mitigate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Public School Teachers
Pollard, Kelvin; Srygley, Sara; Jacobsen, Linda A. – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2023
"The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview from the 2017-2021 American Community Survey," also known as "The Chartbook," draws from the most recent American Community Survey and comparable Census Population Estimates. The report contains over 300,000 data points about Appalachia's economy, income, employment, education, and other…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Community Surveys, Data Analysis, Community Characteristics
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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
Erofeeva, Maria A.; Rueva, Evgeniya O.; Aryamov, Andrey A.; Bodaevsky, Viktor P.; Novikova, Tatyana Y.; Rudenko, Artem V.; Filippov, Mikhail N. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
In conditions of the current development of society which is characterized by mounting social, economic and political crises, the problem of destructive behavior of an individual acquires special significance and topicality. The paper presents the results of a theoretical and methodological analysis of this problem in foreign and domestic…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Social Problems, History, Philosophy
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Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Frankenberg, Erica; Sanchez, Joanna; Taylor, Kendra; De La Garza, Sarah; Kennedy, Michelle – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Each year, the federal government provides billions of dollars in support for low-income families in their acquisition of housing. In this analysis, we examine how several of these subsidized housing programs, public housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) financed housing, relate to patterns of school segregation for children. We use…
Descriptors: Public Housing, School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Low Income Students
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Leist, Sebastian A.; Perry, Laura B. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
Increased social and academic segregation are known side effects of school choice policies in market-driven environments that facilitate competition amongst schools. Aiming at complementing foundational knowledge in quantifying segregation, this study first defines school markets (i.e., geographical context) based on student transitions from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Outcomes of Education, School Location
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Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca A. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2020
In this study on K-12 schools in the U.S. Florida Heartland, I take a QuantCrit approach to uncover how processes of data transformation, which I call 'racial re-formation', shape the utilization and reporting of racial and ethnic representations of students. To understand actual data use at schools, I apply QuantCrit's principles on how numbers…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Demography, Race, Ethnicity
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, 2020
This fact sheet presents the following statistical information on Hispanic higher education and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) from 2020: (1) Hispanic demographics; (2) Hispanic higher education; and (3) Hispanic-Serving Institutions. A 2018-19 enrollment snapshot of Hispanic undergraduate students across the United States is included. [For…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Higher Education
Dunlop Velez, Erin; Pretlow, Josh; Roberson, Amanda Janice – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2020
There is steadily growing consensus around a critical issue in our nation's higher education system: the need to modernize our postsecondary data infrastructure. Recognizing that building the Student-Level Data Network (SLDN) outlined in pending federal legislation will require the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to make key…
Descriptors: Data, Federal Programs, Information Networks, Higher Education
Warren, Paul; Lafortune, Julien – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
Demographic projections from the California Department of Finance (DOF) suggest that California's public K-12 school system is entering a long period of declining enrollment. Districts with declining enrollment face fiscal pressures, as state funding is tied to the number of students they serve. Declining enrollment also has important implications…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Excelencia in Education, 2020
The United States has a growing and young Latino population. While 18 percent of the overall population is Latino, 25 percent of students in K-12 education are Latino. Additionally, the Latino population is projected to increase by 25 percent by 2030. Furthermore, the median age for Latinos is 30, compared to 44 for White non-Hispanics. As more…
Descriptors: College Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement, Demography
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2020
The Annual Condition of Secondary Career and Technical Education Report provides information on student enrollment in career and technical education courses and programs during academic years 2015 through 2019. Demographic characteristics of secondary career and technical education students and educators and information on career and technical…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Career Education
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Alexander, Nicola A.; Jang, Sung Tae – Journal of Education Finance, 2019
We examined professional development spending among Minnesota school districts and explored: (1) the level and variation in spending among districts; (2) associations between expenditures on professional development and district characteristics, including ethnic divergence between faculty and students; and (3) associations between professional…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Faculty Development, Educational Finance, Racial Differences
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