Education Research Report: Condition of Education 2021 IES NCES National Center for Education Statistic

Education Research Report: Condition of Education 2021

Condition of Education

The Condition of Education contains indicators on the state of education in the United States, from prekindergarten through postsecondary education, as well as labor force outcomes and international comparisons. Beginning with the 2021 edition, the Condition of Education also includes indicators from the former Indicators of School Crime and Safety. This year’s edition also includes two Spotlight indicators, which use experimental data from the Household Pulse Survey to examine preliminary educational impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly related to online learning at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. Readers can browse the Condition of Education Indicator System online and download PDFs of individual indicators. The new, more user-friendly Report on the Condition of Education, which highlights and synthesizes key findings from the Condition of Education, is now available in PDF format. Key findings from the report include: Among adults with children under 18 in the home enrolled in public or private school, two-thirds reported in September 2020 that classes had been moved to a distance learning format using online resources. Among adults with at least one household member planning to take postsecondary classes in fall 2020, 45 percent reported that classes for at least one household member would be in different formats. In fall 2018, public charter school enrollment accounted for 7 percent (3.3 million students) of public enrollments, more than doubling from 3 percent (1.6 million students) in 2009. In 2018–19, the U.S. average adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) for public high school students was 86 percent, the highest rate since ACGR was first measured, in 2010–11. Of the 3.2 million high school completers who graduated in the first 9 months of 2019, some 2.1 million, or 66 percent, were enrolled in college in October 2019. At the international level, the United States ranked in the top 25 percent of participating education systems in both mathematics and science at both the 4th and 8th grade levels in the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Education Research Report: Condition of Education 2021

New Data Highlight Disparities In Students Learning In Person | 89.3 KPCC

New Data Highlight Disparities In Students Learning In Person | 89.3 KPCC

New Data Highlight Disparities In Students Learning In Person

The U.S. Education Department has released the first in a series of school surveys intended to provide a national view of learning during the pandemic. It reveals that the percentage of students who are still attending school virtually may be higher than previously understood.

As of January and early February of this year, 44% of elementary students and 48% of middle school students in the survey remained fully remote. And the survey found large differences by race: 69% of Asian, 58% of Black and 57% of Hispanic fourth graders were learning entirely remotely, while just 27% of White students were.

Conversely, nearly half of white fourth-graders were learning full-time in person, compared with just 15% of Asian, 28% of Black and 33% of Hispanic fourth-graders. The remainder had hybrid schedules.

This disparity may be partly driven by where students live. City schools, the survey found, are less likely than rural schools to offer full-time, in-person classes. Full-time, in-person schooling dominated in the South and the Midwest, and was much less common in the West and Northeast.

The racial and ethnic gaps may also be driven in part by which families are choosing to stay remote, even where some in-person learning is offered. Three out of 4 districts around the country were offering some in-person learning as of January, the CONTINUE READING: New Data Highlight Disparities In Students Learning In Person | 89.3 KPCC

Education Research Report: New Digest of Education Statistics

Education Research Report: New Digest of Education Statistics

New Digest of Education Statistics

 

Today, NCES released the Digest of Education Statistics, a comprehensive statistical reference for all levels of education in the United States. Topics include educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons. The Digest also includes data on the number of schools, colleges, teachers, students, and graduates. Key findings include the following: Total public elementary and secondary school enrollment was projected to reach 56.3 million in 2019. About 50.6 million of these students were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools and 5.7 million were enrolled in private elementary and secondary schools. Between 2000 and 2018, the status dropout rate declined from 10.9 to 5.7 percent.* During this period, the status dropout rate for Black 16- to 24-year-olds declined from 13.1 to 5.8 percent and the rate for Hispanic 16- to 24-year-olds declined from 27.8 to 9.0 percent. Fall enrollment in degree-granting postsecondary institutions was 3 percent higher in 2018 (19.6 million) than in 2008 (19.1 million). However, enrollment decreased by 7 percent between 2010 (21.0 million) and 2018. From fall 1976 to fall 2018, the percentage of Hispanic students rose from 4 to 20 percent of all U.S. residents enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, the percentage of Black students rose from 10 to 13 percent, and the percentage of Asian/Pacific Islander students rose from 2 to 7 percent. During the same period, the percentage of White students fell from 84 to 55 percent. Among 25- to 29-year-olds, the percentage who had completed at least high school increased from 89 to 94 percent between 2009 and 2019, and the percentage who had completed a bachelor’s or higher degree increased from 31 to 39 percent. *The status dropout rate is the percentage of 16- to 24-year-olds who have not completed high school and are not enrolled in school. Education Research Report: New Digest of Education Statistics