This Technical Brief discusses basic concepts and definitions that establish a common set of terms related to the protection of personally identifiable information, especially in education records in the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS). This Brief also outlines a privacy framework that is tied to Fair Information Practice Principles that have been promulgated in both the United States and international privacy work.

This Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Technical Brief focuses on data stewardship, which involves each organization’s commitment to ensuring that privacy, confidentiality, security, and the appropriate use of data are respected when personally identifiable information is collected. Data stewardship involves all aspects of data collection, from planning, collection and maintenance to use and dissemination. The Brief also discusses internal control procedures that should be implemented to protect personally identifiable information, including the use of unique student identifiers and linking codes, workforce security, authorization for access, role based access to student record data, permitted uses, and the handling of data breaches. This Brief concludes with a discussion of accountability and auditing, including an overview of the types of audit activities that can be implemented to ensure that all stages of data stewardship have been successfully implemented.

A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools. This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime Victimization Survey, the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the School Survey on Crime and Safety and the School and Staffing Survey. Data on crime away from school are also presented to place school crime in the context of crime in the larger society.

This report presents results of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading and mathematics at grade 12. Results for students in the nation and, for the first time, in the 11 states that volunteered to participate in the 2009 state pilot program are reported as average scores and as percentages of students performing at or above three achievement levels: Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. Results for student demographic groups (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, and highest level of parental education) are included, as well as sample assessment questions with examples of student responses. The Technical Notes and appendix tables provide information on NAEP samples, school and student participation rates, the exclusion and accommodation rates of students with disabilities and English language learners, and additional state-level results. Highlights of the national results in 2009 show that the overall average reading score for twelfth-graders was 2 points higher than in 2005, but 4 points lower than in 1992. There were no significant changes from 1992 to 2009 in the reading score gaps between White and Black students or between White and Hispanic students. In mathematics, the overall average score was 3 points higher in 2009 than in 2005. There was no significant change from 2005 in the mathematics score gaps between White and Black students or between White and Hispanic students. In the 11 participating states, average reading scores in seven states were higher than the score for the nation, and scores for three states were lower. In mathematics, the average scores for six states were higher than the nation, and scores for three states were lower.

This annual report provides basic information from the Common Core of Data about the nation's largest public school districts in the 2008-09 school year. The data include such characteristics as the number of students and teachers, number of high school completers and the averaged freshman graduation rate, and revenues and expenditures. Findings include: In 2008-09, these 100 largest districts enrolled 22 percent of all public school students, and employed 22 percent of all public school teachers. The districts produced 20 percent of all high school completers (both diploma and other completion credential recipients) in 2007-08. Three states -- California, Florida, and Texas -- accounted for almost half of the 100 largest public school districts. Current per-pupil expenditures in fiscal year 2008 ranged from a low of $6,363 in the Granite District, Utah to a high of $23,298 in Boston, Massachusetts.

This First Look presents data from the Winter 2009-10 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), including data on the number of staff employed in Title IV postsecondary institutions in fall 2009 by primary function/occupational activity, length of contract/teaching period, employment status, salary class interval, faculty and tenure status, academic rank, race/ethnicity, and gender.

These Web Tables present a summary of the ways in which graduate and first-professional students attending postsecondary institutions in the United States financed their education during the 2007-08 academic year. Tables include information on grants, loans, assistantships, and other types of aid received from federal, state, and institutional sources; average amounts of aid received by source of aid; and employment during graduate and first-professional enrollment. These are shown by enrollment and demographic characteristics such as graduate level, degree program, attendance status, gender, race/ethnicity, age, and field of study.

These Web Tables draw on data from the 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2003-04, and 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) to examine trends in the profiles of graduate and first-professional students from 1995-96 to 2007-08. These tables group students by their graduate degree level (master’s, doctoral, and first-professional), and look at how their demographic and enrollment characteristics have changed over time.

Written for the respondents, it answers such questions as: Why are my answers to the survey important?, What will the survey ask me?. Why am I being asked to complete this survey?, Do I have to take the survey?, and Will anyone find out what my answers are?

Written for the parents of the respondents, it answers such questions as: What is the purpose of this survey?, Why is my child being asked to complete this survey?, What questions are on the survey for my child?, What is the benefit of my child answering the survey?, and Does my child have to complete this survey?

This brochure describes the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). Written for respondents, it answers such questions as: What is SSOCS?, Why is SSOCS important?, What topics are covered?, Why was my school selected?, and Where can I find more information about SSOCS?

Written for the respondents, it answers such questions as: Why are my answers to the survey important?, What will the survey ask me?, Why am I being asked to complete this survey?, Do I have to take the survey?, and Will anyone find out what my answers are?

Written for the parents of respondents, it answers such questions as: What is the purpose of this survey?, What questions are on the survey for my child?, What is the benefit of my child answering this survey?, How often is this survey conducted?, and Who uses the information from this survey?

This report describes in detail the processes and results of the 2008 Field Test conducted to vet the operational procedures and instruments for the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009.

This Statistics in Brief provides descriptive statistics on algebra enrollment for the cohort of students in the first-grade class of 1999-2000 who had progressed to eighth grade in the 2006-07 school year (representing about 80 percent of the eighth-grade class of 2006-07). The Brief examines mathematics performance at the end of eighth grade by algebra enrollment and other characteristics, including prior mathematics ability and schools' level of eighth-grade algebra enrollment. Data are drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), which included a direct mathematics assessment at the end of the fifth and eighth grades.

Drawing on the 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2003-04, and 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), these Web Tables present trends in borrowing such as borrowing rates, average loan amounts, cumulative loan amounts for undergraduate and graduate levels, average ratio of loans to total financial aid, and rates of borrowing the full maximum Stafford loan amount for graduate and first-professional students. These data are grouped by degree program, attendance intensity, and institution type.

These Web Tables present a summary of the demographic and enrollment characteristics of students enrolled in graduate and first-professional programs in the United States during the 2007-08 academic year. Tables focus on graduate level and degree program and include demographic characteristics such as gender, age, dependents and marital status, race/ethnicity, citizenship status, income, parent’s education, and disability. Enrollment characteristics include institution type, attendance intensity, attendance status, average tuition and budgets, and time between receipt of a bachelor’s degree and enrollment in a graduate program.

The Combined User's Manual includes a description of the design and instrumentation of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99, and information to help users access and use the data files and electronic codebook. It is reproduced on the public- and restricted-use data DVDs.

This report provides an overview of the Teacher Compensation Survey (TCS) data collection in 17 states for school year 2006-07. It also includes a comparison of state administrative records with other sources of data, data availability and quality. This report discusses the uses of the data, and the limitations and advantages of the TCS.

The National Center for Education Statistics conducts the National Indian Education Study (NIES) on behalf of the Office of Indian Education, U.S. Department of Education. This two-page brochure describes the National Indian Education Study (NIES). The NIES is designed to describe the performance of American Indian and Alaska native students in mathematics and reading assessed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, as well as the students' exposure to their culture and traditions. This brochure provides information for selected schools and for field staff involved in data collection in 2011. The NIES was also conducted in 2005, 2007, and 2009.

These Web Tables are a comprehensive source of information on undergraduate students attending postsecondary institutions in the United States during the 2007-08 academic year. Data presented in these tables are from the 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:08). Data include enrollment and attendance status, degree program, undergraduate major, average grades, student characteristics (including sex, race/ethnicity, age, dependency status, income, marital status, responsibility for dependents, high school completion status, local residence while enrolled, citizenship status, and parents’ education), financial aid status and credit card debt, work, community service, voting, disability status, and distance and remedial education.

These Web Tables provide information on undergraduates during the 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2003-04, and 2007-08 academic years. Estimates are presented for all undergraduates, and for undergraduates who attended public 2- and 4-year, private nonprofit, and for-profit institutions by student and enrollment characteristics, hours worked while enrolled, and community service activities.