As part of an "ongoing effort to publicize more than 500 such demographic documents," the Commerce department placed online this month ten reports originally released between 1973 and 1998 containing "data on educational attainment that were collected yearly in the March supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS)." The documents provide CPS data on "educational attainment by age, income,...

Released yesterday by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), this 150-page report is the latest in an annual series (last mentioned in the August 25, 2000 Scout Report). The report covers educational statistics for the past fourteen years and projections to the year 2011 for enrollment, number of graduates and teachers, and expenditures for elementary and secondary schools, and...

This newly-released report from the National Science Foundation details the progress (measured in terms of college degrees earned) of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, between 1989 and 1995. The report, which is divided into five sections (Data Highlights, Technical Notes, Statistical Charts, Detailed Statistical Tables, and Classification of Programs), includes color charts,...