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The National Center for Education Statistics fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education; conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education activities internationally. The structure and activities of the center consist of the following divisions.
Educational attainment is one of the primary indicators of social class in the United States. [45] While the American social class system is a vaguely defined concept with many contradicting theories, [46] [47] educational attainment emerges as one of the top assessments of social class. Not only is a high educational attainment a status symbol ...
The Programme for International Student Assessment ( PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading. [ 1]
A fifth-grade class in Paramus, New Jersey, c. 1957. Typically, the curriculum in public elementary education is determined by individual school districts or county school system. The school district selects curriculum guides and textbooks that reflect a state's learning standards and benchmarks for a given grade level.
In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational standards, often mandate standardized tests for K–12 public school systems and supervise, usually through a board of regents, state colleges, and universities.
Educational assessment or educational evaluation[ 1] is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning. [ 2] Assessment data can be obtained by examining student work directly to assess the achievement of learning outcomes or ...
The sample is selected to approximately match the joint distribution of age, race, gender, and education in the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS). This is a purposive, rather than random, method of selection, designed to eliminate selection bias and non-coverage of the target population in the panel from which respondents were drawn.
t. e. Primary education in the United States (also called elementary education) refers to the first seven to nine years [ 1][ 2] of formal education in most jurisdictions, [ 3] often in elementary schools, including middle schools. Preschool programs, which are less formal and usually not mandated by law, are generally not considered part of ...