The Almanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, the book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America. The Almanac provides national coverage of school enrollment and educational attainment, looking at American education from a variety of different angles. It is organized into three sections: Part A—National Education Statistics; Part B—Region and State Education Statistics; and Part C—County Education Statistics. The Almanac’s contents and coverage allow users to answer—and ask—important questions about education, including: • What are the nationwide trends in earnings by educational attainment level? • Is the earnings gap between high school graduates and college graduates growing or shrinking? • What is the average cost to attend college? • Which states have the highest and lowest high school dropout rates? • How do unemployment rates differ by educational attainment? • What is the correlation between family income and kindergarten and preschool enrollment?
The Almanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, the book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America. The Almanac provides national coverage of school enrollment and educational attainment, looking at American education from a variety of different angles. It is organized into three sections: Part A—National Education Statistics; Part B—Region and State Education Statistics; and Part C—County Education Statistics. The Almanac’s contents and coverage allow users to answer—and ask—important questions about education, including: • What are the nationwide trends in earnings by educational attainment level? • Is the earnings gap between high school graduates and college graduates growing or shrinking? • What is the average cost to attend college? • Which states have the highest and lowest high school dropout rates? • How do unemployment rates differ by educational attainment? • What is the correlation between family income and kindergarten and preschool enrollment?
This completely updated edition of TheAlmanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, this book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America. The Almanac provides national coverage of school enrollment and educational attainment, looking at American education from a variety of different angles. It is organized into three sections: Part A—National Education Statistics; Part B—Region and State Education Statistics; and Part C—County Education Statistics. The Almanac’s contents and coverage allow users to answer—and ask—important questions about education, including: • What are the nationwide trends in earnings by educational attainment level? • Is the earnings gap between high school graduates and college graduates growing or shrinking? • What is the average cost to attend college? • Which states have the highest and lowest high school dropout rates? • How do unemployment rates differ by educational attainment? • What is the correlation between family income and kindergarten and preschool enrollment?
This completely updated edition of The Almanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, this book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America. The Almanac provides national coverage of school enrollment and educational attainment, looking at American education from a variety of different angles. It is organized into three sections: Part A—National Education Statistics; Part B—Region and State Education Statistics; and Part C—County Education Statistics. The Almanac’s contents and coverage allow users to answer—and ask—important questions about education, including: • What are the nationwide trends in earnings by educational attainment level? • Is the earnings gap between high school graduates and college graduates growing or shrinking? • What is the average cost to attend college? • Which states have the highest and lowest high school dropout rates? • How do unemployment rates differ by educational attainment? • What is the correlation between family income and kindergarten and preschool enrollment?
This completely updated edition of TheAlmanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, this book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America. The Almanac provides national coverage of school enrollment and educational attainment, looking at American education from a variety of different angles. It is organized into three sections: Part A—National Education Statistics; Part B—Region and State Education Statistics; and Part C—County Education Statistics. The Almanac’s contents and coverage allow users to answer—and ask—important questions about education, including: • What are the nationwide trends in earnings by educational attainment level? • Is the earnings gap between high school graduates and college graduates growing or shrinking? • What is the average cost to attend college? • Which states have the highest and lowest high school dropout rates? • How do unemployment rates differ by educational attainment? • What is the correlation between family income and kindergarten and preschool enrollment?
This completely updated edition of The Almanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, this book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America. This edition of Almanac of American Education explores for the first time how the COVID-19 pandemic affected education in the United States. It contains new data on virtual schools and virtual school enrollment and characteristics of the twenty largest school districts in each state. The Almanac provides national coverage of school enrollment and educational attainment, looking at American education from a variety of different angles. It is organized into three sections: Part A—National Education Statistics; Part B—Region and State Education Statistics; and Part C—County Education Statistics. The Almanac’s contents and coverage allow users to answer—and ask—important questions about education, including: • What are the nationwide trends in earnings by educational attainment level? • Is the earnings gap between high school graduates and college graduates growing or shrinking? • What is the average cost to attend college? • Which states have the highest and lowest high school dropout rates? • How do unemployment rates differ by educational attainment? • What is the correlation between family income and kindergarten and preschool enrollment?
This updated edition of The Almanac of American Education is compiled from official U.S. government sources and contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America today.
Philanthropy in America is a giant undertaking—every year more than $390 billion is voluntarily given by individuals, foundations, and businesses to a riot of good causes. Donation rates are two to ten times higher in the U.S. than in comparable nations, and privately funded efforts to solve social problems, enrich culture, and strengthen society are among the most significant undertakings in the United States. The Almanac of American Philanthropy was created to serve as the definitive reference on America's distinctive philanthropy. Upon its publication it immediately became the authoritative, yet highly readable, 1,342-page bible of private giving—chronicling the greatest donors in history, the most influential achievements, the essential statistics, and summaries of vital ideas about charitable action. Now there is this new Compact Edition of the Almanac. It offers highlights of the crucial information and fascinating arguments contained in the full-length Almanac, in a condensed format. All updated to 2017!
The past decade has seen a steady flow of important and innovative papers documenting the short- and long-term effects of finance reforms and the heterogeneity of the effects of reforms, exemplified by papers like Jackson, Johnson, & Persico (2016), Lafortune, Rothstein, & Schanzenbach (2018), Hyman (2017), and Candelaria and Shores (2019). Those papers have reinvigorated research on the effects of finance reforms, while raising important questions about how to best design a finance system and generate necessary revenues. The papers mentioned above, along with other papers too numerous to mention, have taken advantage of better data and better methods to address long-standing questions and generate provocative new answers. Since the landscape has changed quickly, policy makers and prospective researchers require a summary of the current state of the research on the effects of school finance reforms. Answers are also needed to such questions as: • To what extent are lessons from the Great Recession applicable to the Covid-19 induced crisis. For example, how will states allocate cuts in grants and will those cuts undo state progress in equalizing educational access? Are there strategies for allocating resources that best preserve student learning? • How do financing systems need to be modified to accommodate greater use of online education? • How should school finance systems be designed to provide equal access (or, at a minimum, adequate access) to students with special needs? • Why is there significant heterogeneity in the results of different finance reforms? • What have been the effects of recent state efforts to reduce the role of the property tax in financing K-12 education? • How should finance systems be designed to more effectively close persistent achievement gaps? • How, if at all, should states integrate the financing of preschool education with the financing of elementary and secondary education? To help prepare the next generation of researchers and policy makers in the realm of school finance, this volume includes papers that summarize the current state of research on the questions above, as well as other pressing questions in education finance and policy. The book aims to bridge a space between comprehensive textbooks and journal articles in the field of education finance and policy. There are two main target audiences. The book is meant to serve professionals like school district administrators and education policy practitioners that desire a contemporary update to their previous study of education finance and policy issues. These audiences often have limited access to peer reviewed journals and knowledge of pertinent government and related policy reports in the field. The book is also meant to serve students and faculty from programs in public administration, public policy, community development and applied economics, education administration, educational leadership and policy studies that are studying content related to education policy, the economics of education, state and local public finance, and taxation. Some upper-level undergraduate students may also benefit from this resource.
