All Reports
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Sunday, July 1, 2007
Demographic and School Characteristics of Students Receiving Special Education in the Elementary Grades
This Issue Brief provides information about elementary school students receiving special education in kindergarten, first grade, third grade, and fifth grade. Data are drawn from the ECLS-K.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools
Freshman graduation rate for public high school students for school years 2002-03 and 2003-04.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment, High School Completions and Staff
National and state level on student enrollment by grade, numbers of high school completers, and the averaged freshman graduation rate for 2004-05.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Revenues and Expenditures by Public School Districts: School Year 2004-05
This report presents data from the School District Finance Survey for School Year 2004-05 (fiscal year 2005, or FY05). The School District Finance Survey is a district-level survey that consists of data submitted annually to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) by state education agencies (SEAs) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. All financial transactions associated with assets, expenditures, revenues, and indebtedness are accounted for, including revenues from federal, state, and local sources and expenditures in categories such as instruction and instruction-related activities, student support services, administration, operation, capital outlay, and debt services.
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Friday, June 1, 2007
Characteristics of Schools, Districts, Teachers, Principals, and School Libraries in the United States: 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey
This First Look introduces the data from the fifth administration (2003-04) of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). It provides an overview of the SASS data for the school year 2003-04, with estimates for public, private, and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)-funded schools and their staff. The SASS is the nation’s most extensive sample survey of elementary and secondary schools and the teachers and administrators who staff them.
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Friday, June 1, 2007
Estimating Effects of Non-Participation on State NAEP Scores Using Empirical Methods
This study addresses the threat to the validity of scores arising from differential and changing participation rates of schools and students in NAEP testing.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
Integrating State Administrative Records To Manage Substance Abuse Treatment System Performance
This guidance document was developed with input from a technical advisory group of state/federal representatives and field researchers, and describes the utility and practice of integrating the information available in state agency data sets with information on clients of alcohol and other drug abuse services.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Changes in Instructional Hours in Four Subjects by Public School Teachers of Grades 1 Through 4
This Statistics in Brief uses data from five administrations of the Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the distribution of weekly instructional hours by regular, full-time teachers, grades 1-4, of self-contained classrooms in four subjects: English/reading/language arts; arithmetic/mathematics; social studies/history; and science.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Linking NAEP Achievement Levels to TIMSS
This paper links the scale of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to the scale of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The purpose of this linking is to project the NAEP achievement levels onto the TIMSS scale.
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Friday, April 20, 2007
Changes in Rigor, Relevance, and Student Learning in Redesigned High Schools
The final report of an ongoing series of reports based on data collected for the Teacher Assignment and Student Work Study for the evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s high school grants. We first review findings on redesigned schools from our previous research and summarize key findings from our most recent research, and then describe the design of the study and present the results from our data analyses.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2004-05 (Fiscal Year 2005)
The Common Core of Data (CCD) is an annual collection of public elementary and secondary education data administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and its collection agent, the U.S. Census Bureau. Data for CCD surveys are provided by state education agencies (SEAs). This report presents findings on public education revenues and expenditures using fiscal year (FY) 2005 data from the National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) of the CCD survey system. Programs covered in the NPEFS include regular, special, and vocational education; charter schools (if they reported data to the SEA); and state-run education programs (such as special education centers or education programs for incarcerated youth).
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Monday, April 9, 2007
Children’s Self-Report About Their Social-Emotional Development from Third to Fifth Grade: Findings from the ECLS-K
This paper uses longitudinal self-report data from a nationally representative data set to explore the relationships between self-perceptions of peer relationships and problem behaviors measured at the end of the third and fifth grades and various socio-demographic characteristics and academic performance.
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Saturday, April 7, 2007
The Impact of Culture and Context on Program Evaluation: The Model Institutions for Excellence Program
This paper specifically highlights the role of culture and context in the evaluation of this NSF/NASA sponsored program.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Effects of a Universal Classroom Behavior Management Program
The Good Behavior Game (GBG), a method of classroom behavior management used by teachers, was tested in first and second grade classrooms in 19 Baltimore City Public Schools beginning in the 1985–1986 school year. The intervention was directed at the classroom as a whole to socialize children to the student role and reduce aggressive, disruptive behaviors, confirmed antecedents of later substance abuse and dependence disorders, smoking, and antisocial personality disorder.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
A Framework for Understanding “Evidence” in Prevention Research and Programs
This report provides a multidimensional framework for understanding the meaning of evidence in prevention science.
