Addresses a number of questions of interest to students deciding which college to attend. Contains papers presented at the National Center for Education Statistics Summer Data Conference in July 1998. Trends in Academic Progress, Three Decades of Student Performance presents the result of long-term trend assessments in reading, mathematics, and science which were administered in 1999. The Certification System in Information Technology describes a new system of credentialing that has arisen in the information technology and telecommunications industries over the past decade. Compares this system to traditional higher education, identifying both similarities and dissimilarities, and points to some cases in which the two interact.
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