New NCES Snapshot From the International Data Explorer Focuses on Low-Performing Students
Does the U.S. have higher proportions of low-performing students than do our economic peers around the world?
Digest of Education Statistics, 2011
The 47th in a series of publications initiated in 1962, the Digest's primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, and federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons.
Data Snapshot
2009 graduates earned an average of 3 credits more over the course of their high school education than 1990 graduates. This translates to about 420 additional hours of instruction during their high school careers.
Fifty-seven percent of eighth-grade AI/AN students in public schools and 55 percent in BIE schools indicated that they planned to go to college full time after high school.
