Education Statistics Quarterly, Fall 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 and data products released in a 3-month period. Each issue also contains a message from the NCES on a timely subject and a featured topic with invited commentary. The articles in the first section, "Featured Topic: Schools and Staffing Survey," are: (1) "Schools and Staffing Survey, 1999-2000: Overview of the Data for Public, Private, Public Charter, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Elementary and Secondary Schools" (Kerry J. Gruber, Susan D. Wiley, Stephen P. Broughman, Gregory A. Strizek, and Marisa Burian-Fitzgerald); (2) "Qualifications of the Public School Teacher Workforce: Prevalence of Out-of-Field Teaching 1987-88 to 1999-2000" (Marilyn McMillen Seastrom, Kerry J. Gruber, Robin Henke, Daniel J. McGrath, and Benjamin A. Cohen); and (3) "Invited Commentary: First Publication from the Schools and Staffing Survey, 1999-2000" (Daniel P. Mayer). The second section, "Elementary and Secondary Education," contains: (4) "The Nation's Report Card: Geography 2001" (Andrew R.Weiss, Anthony D. Lutkus, Barbara S. Hildebrant, and Matthew S. Johnson); (5) "Vocational Offerings in Rural High Schools" (Linda Hudson and Linda Shafer); (6) "Public Alternative Schools and Programs for Students at Risk of Education Failure: 2000-01" (Brian Kleiner, Rebecca Porch, and Elizabeth Farris); (7) "Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts: School Year 2000-01" (Lee M. Hoffman); (8) "Public High School Dropouts and Completers from the Common Core of Data: School Years 1998-99 and 1999-2000" (Beth Aronstamm Young); and (9) "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2000-02" (Beth Aronstamm Young). The third section, "Postsecondary Education," contains: (10) "Profile of Undergraduates in U.S. Postsecondary Education Institutions: 1999-2000" (Laura Horn, Katharin Peter, and Kathryn Rooney); (11) "Student Financing of Undergraduate Education: 1999-2000" (Lutz Berkner, Ali Berker, Kathryn Rooney, and Katharin Peter); (12) "Student Financing of Graduate and First-Professional Education: 1999-2000" (Susan P. Choy and Sonia Geis); (13) "Teaching with Technology: Use of Telecommunications Technology by Postsecondary Instructional Faculty and Staff in Fall 1998" (Edward C. Warburton, Xianglei Chen, and Ellen M. Bradburn); (14) "Teaching Undergraduates in U.S. Postsecondary Institutions: Fall 1998" (Xianglei Chen); (15) "The Gender and Racial/Ethnic Composition of Postsecondary Instructional Faculty and Staff: 1992-98"(Denise Glover and Basmat Parsad); and (16) "enure Status of Postsecondary Instructional Faculty and Staff: 1992-98"(Basmat Parsad and Denise Glover. A section on libraries contains: (17) "Public Libraries in the United States: Fiscal Year 2000"(Adrienne Chute, P. Elaine Kroe, Patricia Garnet, Maria Polcari, and Cynthia Jo Ramsey). A section on "Crosscutting Statistics" contains: (18) "The Condition of Education: 2002" (National Center for Education Statistics); and (19) "Projections of Education Statistics to 2012" (Debra E. Gerald and William J. Hussar). A section on methodology contains; (20) "Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study: 1996-2001 (BPS:1996/2001) Methodology Report" (Jennifer S. Wine, Ruth E. Heuer, Sara C. Wheeless, Talbric L. Francis, Jeff W. Franklin, and Kristin M. Dudley); and (21) "1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99) Methodology Report" (Sameer Y. Abraham, Darby Miller Steiger, Margrethe Montgomery, Brian D. Kuhr, Roger Tourangeau, Bob Montgomery, and Manas Chattopadhyay). (Contains 58 tables and 28 figures.) (SLD)