The Condition of Education 2010 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 49 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a special section on high-poverty schools. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available. The 2009 print edition includes 49 indicators in five main areas: (1) participation in education; (2) learner outcomes; (3) student effort and educational progress; (4) the contexts of elementary and secondary education; and (5) the contexts of postsecondary education.

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Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-08

Nationwide, 75 percent of public high school students who started as freshmen in the fall of 2004 graduated high school in 2008 – up from 74 percent who graduated on time in the spring of 2007. This First Look presents findings associated with public high school graduation and event dropout counts for the 2007-08 school year. These data were collected as part of the Common Core of Data Survey Collection, a universe collection of public schools operating in the United States and associated other jurisdictions.

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