"This report is the twelfth in a series of National Center for Education Statistics reports on high school dropout and completion rates. It presents data on rates in 1999, the most recent year for which data are available, and includes time series data on high school dropout and completion rates for the period 1972 through 1999. In addition to extending time series data reported in earlier years,...

Recently unveiled by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), this modest-looking site offers quick and easy access to recent versions of four of the center's most popular publications: The Condition of Education: 2000, The Digest of Education Statistics: 1999, Education Indicators: An International Perspective, and Youth Indicators 1996. From the site users can directly access the...

On April 6, 2001, two important educational assessment reports were issued, both based on data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The second report, produced by the National Education Goals Panel, discusses this gap in reading ability, but also finds that math skills improved slightly in the 1990s. The report analyzes NAEP state data to identity state trends in...