Abstract: The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) has released the annual "The Condition of Education, detailing 40 indicators on the status and condition of education and a special analysis of the mobility of elementary and secondary school teachers. The 2005 edition includes indicators in six main areas: (1) enrollment trends and student characteristics at all levels of the education system from elementary education to adult learning; (2) student achievement and the longer term, enduring effects of education; (3) student effort and rates of progress through the educational system among different population groups; (4) the contexts of elementary and secondary education in terms of courses taken, teacher characteristics, and other factors; (5) the contexts of postsecondary education; and (6) societal support for learning, including parental and community support for learning, and public and private financial support of education at all levels.
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