All Reports
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Digest of Education Statistics
Since 1962, the primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics has been to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from pre-kindergarten through graduate school, containing data on a variety of topics.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study, First Report
This report focuses on the first of two cohorts of ninth-grade students who participated in the ERO study and discusses the impact that the two interventions had on these students’ reading comprehension skills through the end of their ninth-grade year.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Executive Summary - An Independent Comprehensive Study of the NM Public School Funding Formula
Executive summary of the report summarizing a 16-month effort by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to determine the cost of a sufficient education for all public school students in New Mexico.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
An Independent Comprehensive Study of the New Mexico Public School Funding Formula
This report presents the results of a 16-month effort by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to determine the cost of a sufficient education for all public school students in New Mexico.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Issue Brief: Recent Participation in Formal Learning Among Working-Age Adults with Different Levels of Education
This Issue Brief examines the participation of adults in formal learning activities using data from the 2001 and 2005 adult education surveys of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), focusing on the participation of adults who at the end of the survey had the lowest levels of education (no high school diploma, or a GED).
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Lessons Learned from U.S. International Science Performance
Along with examining U.S. international science performance, this study examines several country background variables that research suggests may be important in explaining students’ science outcomes on the international assessments. One such variable is students’ mathematics performance.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007
This report covers topics such as victimization, fights, bullying, classroom disorder, weapons, student perceptions of school safety, teacher injury, and availability and student use of drugs and alcohol. Indicators of crime and safety are compared across different population subgroups and over time. Data on crimes that occur outside of school grounds are offered as a point of comparison where available.
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
Numbers and Rates of Public High School Dropouts: School Year 2004-05
This First Look presents findings on the numbers and rates of public school students who dropped out of school in school years 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Chance Favors the Prepared Mind: Mathematics and Science Indicators for Comparing States and Nations
The paper argues that the United States needs to substantially increase the scientific and mathematical competency of the general adult population so that the voting citizenry can better understand and reach a consensus on policies that address many of the world’s most pressing problems.
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
The Relationship of Early Home Literacy Activities and Infants’ and Toddlers’ Mental Skills
This paper builds on prior research by providing new information on very young children’s exposure to home literacy activities and the relationship between such activities and children’s mental skill development over their first 2 years of life.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
The Reading Literacy of U.S. Fourth-Grade Students in an International Context Results From the 2001 and 2006 Progress in International Reading Lite
This report uses data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) assessment and summarizes the performance of U.S. students.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Prospects for the Social Safety Net for Future Low Income Seniors
This paper, presented at Forgotten Americans: The Future of Support for Older Low-Income Adults, examines health and income security issues among older Americans.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Reviewing the Evidence on How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement
This report finds that teachers who receive substantial professional development—an average of 49 hours in the nine studies—can boost their students’ achievement by about 21 percentile points.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
A Country's Hope: The Haiti Scholarship Program
USAID’s Haiti Scholarship Program supports public and private schools to retain needy children in school and create the conditions for their academic success through supplemental tutoring and school improvement projects. As explained in this report, thousands of Haitian children have benefited from the opportunity to attend school because of the program.
