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,...

The US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has recently made this publication (in .pdf format) available at its web site. Historically Black Colleges and Universities 1976-1994 is a 112-page statistical review of all aspects of its topic, highlighted by 9 charts and 54 tables covering enrollment, degrees conferred, staff and salaries, finance, revenue, and...

This working paper uses the October 1994 Current Population Survey (CPS) and the 1996 and 1999 National Household Education Survey to estimate how many children are home-schooled in the United States and predict future growth. The report gives demographic characteristics of those who home school, and while it determines that the numbers of home schoolled students are smaller than earlier studies...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), part of the National Center for Education Statistics, has recently made available (in Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format only) this assessment of the educational progress of students at grades 4, 8, and 12, in both public and private schools. "The national results...describe students' mathematics achievement at each grade and within various...

On September 28, 1999, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a major report. This offering from the NCES is a collection of customized State Reports from the NAEP. Each report contains an introduction to the NAEP, a description of the assessment methods, an overview of results for public schools, and comparisons of that state with other participating states.

On September 28, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a major report. This report presents the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 writing assessment for the nation and for participating states and jurisdictions. It contains average scores and achievement level performance for the nation and 39 states and other jurisdictions, as well as...

The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) performs a great deal of survey work in order to learn more about everything from earned doctorates in the United States to business partnerships across different disciplines. On this site, visitors can look at these various surveys on topics that include Education of Scientists and Engineers, Science and Engineering Research...

Unveiled on July 6, this new area simplifies searches at the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) Website. The page features a site-wide keyword search engine and four targeted search tools. The first of these, the Electronic Catalog, helps users find NCES publications and data products, with several search methods, and related information, including a listing of the most popular NCES...

This latest offering from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) contains projections for key education statistics including enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures for the past fourteen years and projected to the year 2009 for the nation as a whole; and projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and public high school graduates in the District of Columbia and...

Produced in collaboration with the Pew Charitable Trusts, Education Week's fifth annual 50-state report card on public education finds that "states need to strike a better balance among academic standards, testing and the tools students and schools need to succeed." At the site, users will find the full text of this detailed report, including an executive summary, an examination of issues and...