Digest of Education Statistics, 1993U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993 - 571 pages This document, consisting of 7 chapters, 34 figures, 412 tables, plus 20 appended tables, provides statistical data on most aspects of U.S. education, both public and private, from kindergarten through graduate school. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) "All Levels of Education"; (2) "Elementary and Secondary Education"; (3) "Postsecondary Education" which include college and university education as well as vocational and adult education; (4) "Federal Programs for Education and Related Activities"; (5) "Outcomes of Education"; (6) "International Comparisons of "Education"; and (7) "Learning Resources and Technology." The publication contains information on a variety of subjects including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, employment and income of graduates, libraries, and international education. Supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government finances, and economic trends provides background for evaluating education data. Included among data not appearing in previous editions are the following: teachers' opinions on the education system; financial statistics of urban, suburban, and rural school districts; plans and activities of high school sophomores; public elementary and secondary school expenditures, by function and state; and international literacy and geography achievements of students. A short introduction provides a brief overview of current trends in American education, and each chapter highlights significant trends. Guides to tabular presentations and sources are provided along with definitions and an index. (MLF) |
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¹ Includes add to totals Alaska American Samoa Average Bachelor's degrees Black Center for Education College Common Core Core of Data Data not available Data survey Data System IPEDS Department of Education District of Columbia Education Data System Education Statistics Educational Testing Service elementary and secondary estimated Excludes expenditures Fall Enrollment Federal field of study full-time funds grade Guam Hawaii high school graduates higher education Idaho institutions of higher Integrated Postsecondary Education ISD Texas lowa Male Female National Center Nevada non-Hispanic North Carolina North Dakota Number Ohio Oklahoma Outlying areas population Postsecondary Education Data Preliminary data prepared April 1993 prepared March 1993 previously published figures programs public elementary Public Law public school Puerto Rico pupils quartile race/ethnicity racial/ethnic reported revised from previously Rhode Island sample sciences score secondary schools SOURCE South staff table was prepared teachers Total Men Women U.S. Department Unified Calif University Utah West Virginia
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Page 476 - A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
Page 453 - Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to enable OCR to carry out its compliance responsibilities.
Page 476 - Specific learning disability" means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.
Page 213 - SOURCE: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). "Fall Enrollment, 1991
Page 472 - The area title may include, in addition to the largest city, up to two city names on the basis and in the order of the following criteria: (1) The additional city has at least 250,000 inhabitants or (2) the additional city has a population of one-third or more of that of the largest city and a minimum population of 25,000.
Page 476 - GDP can be viewed in terms of expenditure categories which include purchases of goods and services by consumers and government, gross private domestic investment, and net exports of goods and services. The goods and services included are largely those bought for final use (excluding illegal transactions) in the market economy. A number of inclusions, however, represent imputed values, the most important of which is rental value of owner-occupied housing.
Page 439 - The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design.
Page 352 - AN ACT To further the development and maintenance of an adequate and well-balanced American merchant marine, to promote the commerce of the United States, to aid in the national defense, to repeal certain former legislation, and for other purposes.
Page 143 - SOURCE; US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. "National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988.
Page 448 - National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) is the third major longitudinal study sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics.