This material presents, in courtroom style, arguments on grade inflation. However, the authors refrain from giving a final verdict. (Author/MLF)

State education agencies, once passive, have assumed an important role in the collection and dissemination of education-related data for use at all levels of government and for a variety of purposes. (Author)

Presents in full the questionnaire sent to member institutions of the American Society for Engineering Education to collect data on engineering education and research for the school year 1975-76. (MLH)

It is Haworth's hope that by 1980 the American public high school will provide many more options for its students in the academic, social, instructional, and human climates where most of their waking time is spent. The survey results presented here indicate that his hope may become a reality. (Editor/RK)

Discusses implications for school finance data collection and analysis of shifting to schools as key management and policy units. Discusses questions that school-level data can answer concerning resource utilization efficiency, effectiveness, intent, and equity. Outlines conceptual issues (school definition and identification) and database…

To understand trends in Scottish special education statistics, the data must be set against known demographic factors and must take into account changing patterns of age of pupils served in special education, types of learning difficulty, categories of establishment included, and distribution between schools and departments. Concludes that a move…

Although numbers such as average test scores or dropout rates can capture part of a school system's success or failure, school statistics seldom tell the whole story. School board members should realize that numbers might measure compliance or process, rather than improvement. Also, improvements in numbers might reflect changes in assessment…

Statewide enrollment in North Carolina's public schools is expected to increase 9.2% between 1992-93 and 1997-98, and by 15.6% between 1992-93 and 2002-03. Two tables and one figure illustrate these projections. (MLF)

Presents universe data on the organization, students, staff, and financial resources of public elementary and secondary education agencies and schools. Data are from the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data Program. (Author/SLD)

Provides current-year estimates of selected key statistics for public elementary and secondary schools. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data indicate enrollment, numbers of teachers, student/teacher ratios, high school graduates, and education revenues and expenditures. (Author/SLD)

A conflict exists between the way statistics is practiced in contemporary business environments and the way statistics is taught in schools of management. While businesses are embracing programs, such as six sigma and TQM, that bring statistical methods to the forefront of management decision making, students do not graduate with the skills to…

This compilation of statistical information covers prekindergarten through graduate school to describe the current American education scene. The "Mini-Digest" is designed as an easy reference for materials found in detail in the "Digest of Education Statistics, 2009". These volumes include selections of data from many…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) fulfills a congressional mandate to collect and report "statistics and information showing the condition and progress of education in the United States and other nations in order to promote and accelerate the improvement of American education." The "Quarterly" offers a…

The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) annually publishes a statistical report on the status and progress of education in the United States. This pamphlet provides 14 charts that represent a small sample of the 60 indicators contained in the "Condition of Education, 1995" report. The charts present…

Information about public school enrollment and the numbers of staff members employed is reported in the "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education, School Year 1996-97" from which this brief summary is derived. In 1996-97, 45.6 million students were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. Of these…