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The Almanac of American Education is an easy-to-use, single-volume source designed to help users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government and reliable private sources, The Almanac contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America.
The appendix to this title functions as a guide to education resources on the Internet. It provides site descriptions and evaluations along with URLs, giving users the information they need to go directly to the sites that will be of greatest use to them. The Almanac provides national coverage of school enrollment and educational attainment, looking at American education from a variety of different angles.
State-level statistics include:
average SAT and ACT scores
per-student expenditures
private and public school enrollment
student poverty
public school teacher salaries and teacher characteristics
regional comparative data
County-level statistics include:
information on student/teacher ratios
free lunch eligibility
numbers of students and graduates
attainment levels
per-student expenditures
The Almanac of American Education, First Edition was selected for Choice Publication's "Outstanding Academic Title" award.
Also available in eBook format!
Other volumes in the U.S. DataBook Series™ include:
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Sample of text in PDF format.
Table of Contents in PDF format.
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| Reviews and Recommendations |
"It’s great having data in printed form … especially compiled data for county statistics along with useful insights. …The state and county data are most useful because such statistics are hard to find.
"I would recommend The Almanac of American Education to academic, public, and school libraries and others that use educational statistics…[including] students, researchers, and anyone looking for educational information based on county or researching places to relocate."
Ann W. Henriksson
Coordinator of Reference and Government Documents
Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
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"Educators and researchers alike will find the format convenient and the scope exhaustive; indeed, anyone interested in education will find [The Almanac of American Education] valuable to understanding and comprehending the field at the national, state, and county levels.... Handy and valuable for anyone interested in issues relating to American education and librarians at schools with education programs.... Highly recommended. All collections."
CHOICE
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"This is a premier edition….The book is a good reference source, particularly useful for state and county data. It is recommended as a fine complement to the Digest of Education Statistics."
American Reference Books Annual
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"...an invaluable, indispensable, and reliable resource and reference and highly recommended for professional, governmental, NGO, academic, and community library Educational Studies collections."
Midwest Book Review -- July 2013
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