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The State Highlights Reports assemble important findings in an accessible format that allows readers to examine a particular state’s performance on this year’s indicators. For most indicators, national results are also provided as a benchmark against which state performance can be gauged.
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The Chance-for-Success Index is based on an original state-by-state analysis, combining information from 13 individual indicators that span an individual's life. This interactive map offers a quick way to examine various indicators and summary data.
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Executive Summary
Quality Counts 2007 begins to track state efforts to create seamless education systems from early childhood to the world of work.
Overview: PRE-K-16
Bolstering young people's prospects for success requires stronger links in education from infancy to adulthood.
The Chance-for-Success Index allows states to identify strong and weak links in the typical educational trajectories of their residents.
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Chance For Success indicators PDF |
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Child Well-Being
Reducing the disparities in children's achievement will require reaching beyond the educational system.
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Childhood Well-Being indicators PDF |
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Early Childhood
High-quality early education can help mitigate disparities in school readiness that exist between children of different socioeconomic backgrounds.
The economic benefits of ensuring good early-childhood development are clear. Now it's time to design and implement a system to do it.
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Early-Childhood Education Indicators PDF |
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K-12 Schooling
With its newly developed Achievement Index, Quality Counts 2007 offers another lens on K-12 academic performance across states.
Rethinking the education school could put an end to the age-old argument over whether teaching is a profession or a craft.
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K-12 Achievement Indicators PDF |
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Postsecondary Success
The failure to prepare many young people for higher education is taking a toll on the U.S. rates of college enrollment and completion.
Rethinking the education school could put an end to the age-old argument over whether teaching is a profession or a craft.
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Postsecondary Education Indicators PDF |
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Workforce Readiness
As the job market goes global, propelling more young people to higher levels of educational attainment is now being seen as an economic necessity.
Business, the U.S. education system's prime consumer, sees a need for schools to think outside the traditional K-12 box.
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Economy and Workforce Indicators PDF |
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International Comparisons
The U.S. education system no longer stacks up as favorably as it once did when compared with those of other prosperous countries.
America's international edge in student achievement is slipping, as other countries take education reform to heart.
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International Perspective Indicators PDF |
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State of the States
After a decade of tracking state policies in key areas related to elementary and secondary education, Quality Counts this year significantly broadens its perspective to look at the connections between K-12 education and the other systems with which it intersects.