School Enrollment Rates by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Age: 1980 to 2006 Let’s examine enrollment rates in a little bit greater detail, breaking it down by race and age. White 1980 1990 2006 3 and 4 years old 36.3 44.9 55.6 20 and 21 years old 31.9 41.0 48.2...
School Enrollment Rate by Age: 1970, 1980, 2006 I’ve previously discussed how the effective high school graduation rate is higher than critics of the education system will acknowledge. But graduation is an arbitrary demarcation along the learning curve for most...
Federal Spending on Education and Related Programs: 2005 and 2006 Level, agency, and program 2005 2006 Total, all programs $145.9 billion $166.5 billion Percent of federal budget outlays 5.9% 6.3% Elementary/secondary education programs $68.9 billion $70.9 billion...
The American psyche is prone to fits of fear that we are falling behind the world. In reality however, we’ve concluded...
Contrary to popular belief, high school students have made significant academic progress in math over the last twenty years. There are two ways to assess the progress of public education in this country: (i) how well students are educated now compared to their...
