Special education programs are a key component of school improvement efforts. This program review tool is designed to assist school districts and leaders in beginning and engaging in conversations about, and reviewing and improving the quality of, their special education…

This First Look presents preliminary data findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall 2017 collection, which included three survey components: Institutional Characteristics for the 2017-18 academic year, Completions covering the period July 1, 2016, through June 30,…

Public school districts and police departments in the United States often collaborate to address school-based violence and other threats to the safety and well-being of students, teachers, and staff. As a result of these partnerships, law enforcement officers have become…

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…