Education Statistics Quarterly, Summer 2002.

This publication provides 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, data products, and funding opportunities developed over a 3-month period. Each issue also contains a message from the NCES on a timely topic and a featured topic with invited commentary. This issues featured topic is The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). This section contains the first three articles: (1) Coming of Age in the 1990s: The Eighth-Grade Class of 1988 12 Years Later (Steven J. Ingels, Thomas R. Curtin, Phillip Kaufman, Martha Naomi Alt, and Xianglei Chen); (2) Invited Commentary: Tracing Educational Trajectories through Longitudinal Studies (Aaron M. Pallas); (3) Invited Commentary: Transitioning to Adulthood in a Turbulent Time (Samuel R. Lucas). The second section, Elementary and Secondary Education, contains: (4) The Nations Report Card: U.S. History 2001 (Michael S. Lapp, Wendy S. Grigg, and Brenda S.-H. Tay-Lin); (5) Beyond School-Level Internet Access: Support for Instructional Use of Technology (Lawrence Lanahan);(6) Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 1999-2000 (Nancy Carey, Brian Kleiner, Rebecca Porch, and Elizabeth Farris); (7) Early Estimates of Public Elementary and Secondary Education Statistics: School Year 2001-02 (Lena M. McDowell and Frank Johnson); (8) Public High School Dropouts and Completers from the Common Core of Data: School Years 1991-92 through 1997-98 (Beth Aronstamm and Lee Hoffman); (9) Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Council by State: School Year 2000-01 (Beth Aronstamm Young); (10) Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 1999-2000 (Frank Johnson); and (11) Financing Elementary and Secondary Education in the States: 1997-98 (Joel D. Sherman, Elizabeth Rowe, and Laura Peternick). The third section, Postsecondary Education, contains: (12) Persistence and Attainment of Beginning Students with Pell Grants (Christina Chang Wei and Laura Horn); and (13) Part-Time Instructional Faculty and Staff: Who They Are, What They Do, and What They Think (Valerie Martin Conley and David W. Leslie). The fourth section, Methodology, contains: (14) National Postsecondary Student Aid Study 1999-2000 (NPSAS:2000) Methodology Report (John A. Riccobono, Melissa B. Cominole, Peter H. Siegel, Tim J. Gabel, Michael W. Link, and Lutz K. Berkner); and (15) Classification of Instructional Programs: 200 Edition (National Center for Education Statistics). (Contains 28 figures and 43 tables.) (SLD)