Digest of Education Statistics, 1999.

Overview & Synopsis

This digest provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. It includes a selection of data from government and private sources, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics. The publication contains information on a variety of subjects in the field of educational statistics. Supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government financing, and economic trends provide background for evaluating education data. This edition contains a significant amount of new material, which includes the following: poverty rates for 5- to 17-year olds in large school districts; federal funds, by program, for large school districts; trends in the average size of public schools, by level of school; distribution of public school students, by race/ethnic concentration of enrollment in school; selected statistics for Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education; selected statistics for tribal colleges predominately service American Indian students; percent of colleges using various selection criteria for admission; and average undergraduate tuition and fees, by percentage distribution of student enrollment. Appendixes include a "Guide to Tabular Presentation,""Guide to Sources," and "Definitions." (DFR)