Since 2003, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has compared each state’s standard for proficient performance in reading and mathematics by placing the state standards onto a common scale of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This process of…

When Ron Rammer walked into the seventh-grade science class at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt, California, the principal sensed something out of the ordinary. The students were studying mudslides, “but instead of just describing mud coming down a hill after…

This report describes the percentage of teachers who are satisfied with their salary for teaching and compares the job satisfaction of teachers who are satisfied and dissatisfied with their teaching salary.

This report uses data from the 2012 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to examine the rate of digital literacy in the U.S., including how this rate varies among demographic and workforce groups, and how the U.S.…

This analysis examines data from institutions that became test-optional more than a decade and a half ago, and others that adopted test-optional policies within the last few years. We have tried to provide as wide a framework of findings as…

The Condition of Education is a congressionally mandated annual report summarizing important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The 2018 Condition of Education report presents 47 indicators on topics ranging from prekindergarten through postsecondary education, as…

Education Week puts the nation’s K-12 finance performance under the microscope in the second installment of Quality Counts 2018. This data-driven special report focuses on the money that keeps thousands of school districts afloat—how much gets spent, how it’s divvied…

UTeach is a well-known, university-based program designed to increase the number of high-quality STEM teachers in the workforce. Despite substantial investment and rapid program diffusion, there is little evidence about the effectiveness of UTeach graduates. Using administrative data from the…

Has the starting gun been fired on a race to the bottom? Have the bars for reaching academic proficiency fallen as many states have loosened their commitment to Common Core? And, is there any evidence that the states that have…

A secondary analysis of the California Healthy Kids Survey in 2 large and representative samples of California high schools and students: 2009-2011 and 2011-2013. This is a population sample of all public high school students (grades 9 and 11) in…

This sixth NEPC Annual Report on Virtual Education provides a detailed overview and inventory of full-time virtual schools and blended learning, or hybrid, schools. Full-time virtual schools deliver all curriculum and instruction via the Internet and electronic communication, usually asynchronously…

Jaime Donally wants students to experience what it’s like to hold a beating heart in their hands and walk among the planets in the solar system — without leaving the classroom. As a former pre-K-8 math teacher turned technology-integration specialist,…