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Key National Education Indicators - Workshop Summary (Paperback)
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The education system in the United States is continually challenged
to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far
more ambitious than it once was. At the turn of the 20th century,
less than one-tenth of students enrolled were expected to graduate
from high school. Today, most people expect schools to prepare all
students to succeed in postsecondary education and to prosper in a
complex, fast-changing global economy. Goals have broadened to
include not only rigorous benchmarks in core academic subjects, but
also technological literacy and the subtler capacities known as
21st-century skills. To identify the most important measures for
education and other issues and provide quality data on them to the
American people, Congress authorized the creation of a Key National
Indicators System (KNIS). This system will be a single Web-based
information source designed to help policy makers and the public
better assess the position and progress of the nation across a wide
range of areas. Identifying the right set of indicators for each
area is not a small challenge. To serve their purpose of providing
objective information that can encourage improvement and
innovation, the indicators need to be valid and reliable but they
also need to capture the report committee's aspirations for
education. This report describes a workshop, planned under the
aegis of the Board on Testing and Assessment and the Committee on
National Statistics of the National Research Council. Key National
Education Indicators is a summary of the meeting of a group with
extensive experience in research, public policy, and practice. The
goal of the workshop was not to make a final selection of
indicators, but to take an important first step by clearly
identifying the parameters of the challenge. Table of Contents
Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Indicators for Preschool 3 Indicators
for K-12 Education 4 Indicators for Higher Education 5 Indicators
for Adult Postsecondary Education and Training 6 Indicators for
Lifelong, Informal Learning 7 Concluding Thoughts References
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda Appendix B: Workshop Participants
Appendix C: Indicators Identified By Individual Panelists
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