Higher Ed Utah

On May 27, NCES released ‘The Condition of Education 2010,’ a Congressionally mandated report to the country on education in America today.  The report includes 49 indicators in five major areas — education participation, learner outcomes, student effort and educational progress, the contexts of elementary and secondary education, and the contexts of postsecondary education.  The report also includes a special analysis on high-poverty public schools.  Among the findings: in 2007-08, 20% of public elementary schools and 9% of public secondary schools were considered high-poverty schools, versus 15% and 5%, respectively, in 1999-2000; in 2007-08, according to school administrators, 28% of high school graduates from high-poverty schools attended four-year institutions after graduation, versus 52% of high school graduates from low-poverty schools; and roughly 57% of first-time students seeking a bachelor’s degree at a four-year institution in 2001-02 had completed their degree at that institution within six years.  FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/.