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Useful Education Facts and Stats

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It’s always useful to know the context of the education sphere. The National Center for Education Statistics has a long history of providing useful fact sheets and summaries of what’s happening in education.

Resource Shelf gives us a good list of recent releases of new data:

Reference: Fast Facts / ?Fact Sheets?: Education (U.S.): Statistics

“In the Assessments Category

+ Do you have any information on assessments of students in arts education classes?

In the Elementary/Secondary School Category

+ There are 27 Fact Sheets and but four fact sheets are new.

In the International Category

+ How does achievement of American students compare to students in other countries?

+ How does the United States compare in labor force outcomes of education?

In the Postsecondary Category

+ Is participation in adult learning increasing?

+ How long does it take students at colleges and universities to complete their bachelor?s degrees?

+ What is the percentage of degrees conferred by sex and race?

+ How large are the endowments of colleges and universities in the United States?

+ Do you have any statistics on financial aid for postsecondary undergraduates?

+ Which colleges have the highest enrollment?

+ How has the college enrollment rate immediately following high school graduation varied over time?

+ What is the average income for high school and college graduates?

+ What are the most popular majors for college students?

+ What types of NCES surveys are available on students and teachers by state and level?

+ Do you have any information on the race/ethnicity of college and university faculty and staff?

+ What proportion of students enrolled in postsecondary education have a disability?

+ What is Title IX?”

The complete set of Fact Sheets can be found here.

As always, these sorts of numbers can help libraries support their positions, programs, budgets and requests for investments.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on August 15, 2010 (boomark / email).