Content Details
ED464126 - Education Statistics Quarterly, Winter 2001
- Category
- Executive Agency Publications
- Collection
- Education Reports from ERIC
- SuDoc Class Number
- ED 1.615:
- Date Issued
- January 1, 2002
- Author
- Dillow, Sally, Ed
- Source Institution
- National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC
- Publication Type
- Collected Works - Serials
- Subject
- Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, National Surveys, Parent Participation, Research Methodology, School Statistics
- Identifiers
- Condition of Education (NCES), National Center for Education Statistics, National Household Education Survey
- Abstract
- This publication provides a comprehensive overview of work done across all parts of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue contains short publications, summaries, and descriptions that cover all NCES publications and data products released in a 3-month period. Each issue also contains a message from the NCES on a timely subject and a featured topic with invited commentary. The articles in the first section, Featured Topic: National Household Education Surveys Program, are: (1) I1Effortsby Public K-8 Schools To Involve Parents in Children's Education: Do School and Parent Reports Agree?" (Xianglei Chen); (2) "Participation Trends and Patterns in Adult Education: 1991 to 1999" (Sean Creighton and Lisa Hudson); (3) "Household Data in the Federal Statistical System: The Role of the National Household Education Surveys Programr1 (Susan Schechter); and (4) "When School Surveys Just Aren't Enough: Uses of the National Household Education Surveys Program" (David B. Bills). The second section, Elementary and Secondary Education, contains: ( 5 ) "The Nations Report Card: Science Highlights 200011(National Center for Education Statistics); (6) "Assessing the Best: NAEP's 1996 Assessment of Twelfth-Graders Taking Advanced Science Courses1I (Christine Y. OISullivan and Wendy S. Grigg); (7) "Dropout Rates in the United States: 200011 (Phillip Kaufman, Martha Naomi Alt, and Christopher D. Chapman); (8) "Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2001" (Phillip Kaufman, Xianglei Chen, Susan P. Choy, Katharin Peter, Sally A. Ruddy, Amanda K. Miller, Jill K. Fleury, Kathryn A. Chandler, Michael G. Planty, and Michael R. Rand); and (9) "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 1999-2000" (Beth Aronstamm Young). Postsecondary Education, the third section, contains: (10) I1InstitutionalPolicies and Practices: Results from the 1999 National Study of .Postsecondary Faculty, Institution Survey1I (Andrea Berger, Rita Kirshstein, and Elizabeth Rowel. The next section, Lifelong Learning, contains: (11) "Adult Literacy and Education in Americat1(Carl F. Kaestle,.