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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:39:00 CST
From:         P30JWP1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      OERI: Digest of Ed. Stats. (110 lines)

The following is provided by The Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.  Please feel
welcome to distribute.

                U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
       OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT
          NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS

                 DIGEST OF EDUCATION STATISTICS
             RELEASED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

College enrollment rose to a record 14.2 million students in
fall 1991, despite continuing decreases in the population of
18- to 24-year-olds.  This and other education-related
figures are part of the new DIGEST OF EDUCATION STATISTICS,
1992, published by the U.S. Department of Education's
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

In addition to updating many of the statistics that appeared
in previous editions, the 1992 DIGEST contains data covering
new areas, including: drug use by teenagers and young
adults, characteristics of vocational education teachers,
proportion of 17-year-olds taking various science courses,
federal support for education by type of recipient, opinions
of teachers about teacher training, and the number of
students and teachers in urban, rural, and suburban areas:

Among the other highlights:

o    Expenditures for public and private education, from
     preprimary through graduate school, are estimated to total
     $425 billion in 1991-92, up from $402 billion in 1990-91.

o    Public elementary enrollment rose from 27.0 million in fall
     1985 to an estimated 30.4 million in fall 1991.  Enrollment
     in the upper grades declined from 12.4 million to an
     estimated 11.5 million over the same period.  The net result
     of these two trends was an overall increase in public school
     enrollment.

o    About 5.9 million students enrolled part-time in
     institutions of higher education in fall 1990, up 15 percent
     since 1985. This is a trend that is expected to continue as
     both nontraditional students, such as older women, and
     increasing numbers of high school graduates pursue higher
     education.

o    A 1991 international assessment of mathematics and science
     revealed the relatively low level of achievement of U.S.
     students, particularly older students. In the mathematics
     assessment, U.S. 9-year-olds scored below students in 5 of
     the 9 other countries assessed.  In the mathematics
     assessment of 13-year-olds, 11 of 14 countries had average
     test scores higher than the U.S.
Copies of THE DIGEST OF EDUCATION STATISTICS, 1992 are
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P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburg, PA 15250-7954.  The stock number
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