Author Description

Education Department Publication NCES 2004-077. Barbara Kridl, Managing Editor; Andrea Livingston, Senior Editor; John Wirt, Project Director. Presents indicators of important developments and trends in American education. Includes recurrent themes like participation and persistence in education, student performance and other outcomes, the environment for learning, and societal suport for education. Contains a special analysis that examines changes in undergraduate student financial aid between 1989-90 and 1999-2000.