NCES 2003-026. By Joel D. Sherman, Steven D. Honegger, and Jennifer L. McGivern, of the American Institutes for Research. Mariann Lemke, of the National Center for Education Statistics is Project Director. Presents a set of education indicators that describes how the United States education system compares with those in other economically developed countries. Compares these statistics primarily with the eight most industrialized countries in the world, whose representatives meet regularly to discuss economic and other policy issues: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States--the Group of Eight (G8) countries.
"This report shows how the U.S. education system compares to other major industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russian Federation, United Kingdom) in four areas: (1) the context of education; (2) preprimary and primary education; (3) secondary education; and (4) higher education. This report is an update of the 2002 G8 Report, and is part of a series to be published in alternate years"--Title screen.
"This report shows how the U.S. education system compares to other major industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russian Federation, United Kingdom) in four areas: (1) the context of education; (2) preprimary and primary education; (3) secondary education; and (4) higher education. This report is an update of the 2002 G8 Report, and is part of a series to be published in alternate years"--Title screen.
For more than a decade, the U.S. has participated actively in international projects that are designed to provide key info. about the performance of the American education system compared to other countries. This report draws on the most current information produced by these projects available at the time of production of this report (summer 2002) to present a set of education indicators that describes how the U.S. education system compares with those in other economically developed countries. Indicators include: Context of Education; Pre-primary and Primary Education; Secondary Education; Higher Education; and Education and the Labor Force. Glossary. Classification of Countries' Education Systems. Charts and tables.
Indicators in this volume provide international benchmarks for assessing the condition of education in U.S. states and in the United States as a whole by comparison with many other industrialized countries for which data are available. On six sets of indicators (37 indicators in all), country-level and state-level measures are arrayed side-by-side to facilitate comparison. The indicators are grouped into six categories: (1) background; (2) participation; (3) processes and institutions; (4) achievement and attainment; (5) labor market outcomes; and (6) finance. The presentation of each indicator includes an explanation of what it measures, why it is important, and key results from a comparison of countries and states. Throughout the report, comparisons are most often made in the text among like-sized entities. The presentation of each indicator also includes separate tables for states and countries and graphs that display states and countries together. Supplemental notes and a statistical appendix include supplemental and technical information on how measures in the indicators were calculated, and a glossary is included. (Contains 37 two-part tables and 37 figures, some of which have several parts.) (SLD)