This Statistics in Brief investigates some factors that may contribute to achievement gaps in the summer after kindergarten, including differences in children’s experiences, such as participation in summer care arrangements, programs, and activities. Specifically, the brief describes students’ summer nonparental … Read More
Activate Research co-authored “Gender Differences in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Interest, Credits Earned, and NAEP Performance in the 12th Grade,” a Statistics in Brief that describes high school graduate’s attitudes toward STEM courses (specifically, mathematics and science), credits … Read More
This brief investigates early-career teachers’ preparation for teaching and receipt of support by selected characteristics of the schools in which they taught during the 2011–12 school year. The specific school characteristics included in this report are school classification (traditional public … Read More
This First Look report introduces new data for national and state-level public elementary and secondary revenues and expenditures for fiscal year (FY) 2015. Specifically, this report includesthe following school finance data: revenue and expenditure totals; revenues by source; expenditures by … Read More
This report provides information about revenues and expenditures in the nation’s public school districts for school year 2014-15. The report uses data from the FY 15 provisional School District Finance Survey data file that state education agencies in all 50 … Read More