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
18% of households with a high school student, 16% of households with a college student, and 17% of households with job-seekers used a public library in the past month to use a computer or the Internet in 2002.
Sources of public libraries’ operating income: FY 2000
Local: 77%
State: 13%
Federal: 1%
Other: 9%
