Education Statistics Quarterly, Fall 2000.

The "Education Statistics Quarterly" gives a comprehensive overview of work done across all parts of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue contains short publications, summaries, and descriptions that cover all NCES publications and data products released during a 3-month period. Each message also contains a message from the NCES on a timely topic and a featured topic with invited commentary. This issue contains: (1) "Projections of Education Statistics to 2010" (Debra E. Gerald and William J. Hussar); (2) "Invited Commentary: The Baby Boom Echo Goes to College--By the Millions" (Richard W. Riley); (3) "Invited Commentary: Meeting Greater Expectations and Greater Needs for Education Data" (Lavan Dukes and Edward Croft); (4) "Children Who Enter Kindergarten Late or Repeat Kindergarten: Their Characteristics and Later School Performance" (Jerry West, Anne Meek, and David Hurst); (5) "High School Dropouts, by Race/Ethnicity and Recency of Migration" ("The Condition of Education"); (6) "Teacher Supply in the United States: Sources of Newly Hired Teachers in Public and Private Schools: 1987-88 to 1993-94" (Stephen P. Broughman and Mary R. Rollefson); (7) "Salaries of Teachers" ("The Condition of Education"); (8) "In the Middle: Characteristics of Public Schools with a Focus on Middle Schools" (Martha Naomi Alt and Susan P. Choy); (9) "Condition of America's Public School Facilities: 1999" (Laurie Lewis, Kyle Snow, Elizabeth Farris, Becky Smerdon, Stephanie Cronen, and Jessica Kaplan); (10) "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 1998-1999" (Beth Aronstamm Young); (11) "Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Enrollment, Services, and Persistence" (David Hurst, Ed. and Becky Smerdon, Ed.); (12) "Entry and Persistence of Women and Minorities in College, Science and Engineering Education" (Gary Huang, Nebiyu Taddese, and Elizabeth Walter); (13) "Debt Burden Four Years after College" (Susan P. Choy); (14) "College Quality and the Earnings of Recent College Graduates" (Robert A. Fitzgerald); (15) "Public Libraries in the United States: FY 1997" (Adrienne Chute and P. Elaine Kroe); (16) "Educational Attainment" ("The Condition of Education"); (17) "The Condition of Education: 2000" (National Center for Education Statistics); (18) "Quality Profile for SASS Rounds 1-3: 1987-1995" (Graham Kalton, Marianne Winglee, Sheila Krawchuk, and Daniel Levine); (19) "How Does NAEP Select Schools and Students?" (Alan Vanneman and Sheida White); and (20) "How Does NAEP Ensure Consistency in Scoring?" (Sheida White, Connie Smith, and Alan Vanneman). Each article contains references. (Contains 20 tables and 19 figures.) (SLD)