What's New for November 2009

Students’ Use of Tutoring Services, by Adequate Yearly Progress Status of School (November 25, 2009)
This Statistics in Brief reports on the use of tutoring services among public school students enrolled in grades K–12.

Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2008, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Staff, 2008-09 (November 18, 2009)
This First Look presents data from the Winter 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), including data on the number of staff employed in Title IV postsecondary institutions in fall 2008 by primary function/occupational activity, length of contract/teaching period, employment status, salary class interval, faculty and tenure status, academic rank, race/ethnicity, and gender.

Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-08 (November 10, 2009)
This First Look presents national and state level data on student enrollment by grade and by race/ethnicity within grade, the numbers of teachers and other education staff, and several student/staff ratios for the 2007-08 school year.

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 U.S. restricted-use datafile (November 6, 2009)
This datafile contains school IDs that can be linked to the public-use U.S. TIMSS 2007 datafile to allow for merging with data from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and Private School Universe Survey (PSS). This datafile can only be obtained by those who apply for a restricted-use license through NCES. Information on how to merge the restricted-use datafile with the U.S. TIMSS 2007 public-use datafile is included.

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 U.S. public-use datafile (November 6, 2009)
This datafile contains the U.S. TIMSS 2007 data, including data that were collected only in the United States and not included on the international database available from the IEA. The additional data relate to the race and ethnicity of students and the percentage of students in a school eligible for the Federal free and reduced lunch program, among other variables. This datafile is intended to be used in conjunction with the international datafile available from the IEA. SAS and SPSS macro and control files are included to facilitate the use of the TIMSS database by researchers.

2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:08) Restricted-Use Data File (November 6, 2009)
The NPSAS:08 restricted-use data file is now available to restricted-use data licensees. NPSAS:08 contains the data on a sample of about 114,000 undergraduate students and about 14,000 graduate and first-professional students who were enrolled at any time between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008 in about 1,730 postsecondary institutions. The survey focuses on how students and their families pay for postsecondary education, and contains a wide range of demographic information about the nation's postsecondary students.