State 4-year graduation rates, 2010-11
Iowa 88% Vermont 87% Wisconsin 87% Indiana 86% Nebraska 86% New Hampshire 86% North Dakota 86% Tennessee 86% Texas 86% Illinois 84% Maine 84%School districts with the most students enrolled in charter schools, 2011-12
Los Angeles 98,576
New York City 48,057
Detroit 47,086
Philadelphia 46,801
Chicago 44,870
Miami 41,767
Houston 40,549
New Orleans 32,597
Washington, D.C. 31,562
Broward County, Fla. 30,438
Source: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Ten states with the highest Parent Power Index
Indiana 84.0% Florida 83.0% Ohio 79.0% Arizona 78.0% District of Columbia 77.0% Louisiana 76.0% Pennsylvania 75.5% Utah 75.0% Minnesota 74.5% Wisconsin 74.0% Source: Center for Education Reform*Parent Power Index "measures the ability in each state of a parent to exercise choices...engage with their local school and board, and have a voice in the systems that surround their child." The index takes into account access to charter schools, school choice and online learning; the level of teacher quality, and the transparency of education data.)
Top Ten finalists for the 2013 Aspen Prize, which honors community colleges for outstanding performance and outstanding improvements.
- Brazosport College, Lake Jackson, Texas
- Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
- College of the Ouachitas, Malvern, Ark.
- Kingsborough Community College - City University of New York, Brooklyn
- Lake Area Technical Institute, Watertown, S.D.
- Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, Calif.
- Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Fla.
- Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, Cumberland, Ky.
- Walla Walla Community College, Walla Walla, Wash.
- West Kentucky Community and Technical College, Paducah, Ky.
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States (and Washington, D.C.) with the highest percentage enrollment of students who were English Language Learners, 2009-10
California 28.9%
Nevada 16.0%
New Mexico 15.5%
Texas 15.0%
Colorado 11.4%
Arizona 11.1%
Oregon 11.0%
Hawaii 10.0%
Washington, D.C. 9.6%
Florida 8.8%Source: U.S. Department of Education, "The Condition of Education 2012"
States with greatest prek-12 Enrollment growth, 1989-90 to 2010-11
Nevada 134.0%
Arizona 76.4%
Colorado 49.9%
Georgia 48.9%
Texas 48.3%
Florida 47.7%
North Carolina 37.9%
Utah 33.5%
Delaware 32.3%
California 31.8%Source: U.S. Department of Education, "The Condition of Education 2012"
World’s Top Research Universities
California Institute of Technology
University of Oxford
Stanford University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
University of Cambridge
Imperial College London
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago
Source: Times Higher Education
