Excluded

摘要

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing, and reportingdata related to education in the United States and other nations. It fulfills a congressional mandate to collect, collate,analyze, and report full and complete statistics on the condition of education in the United States; conduct and publishreports and specialized analyses of the meaning and significance of such statistics; assist state and local educationagencies in improving their statistical systems; and review and report on education activities in foreign countries.NCES activities are designed to address high priority education data needs; provide consistent, reliable, complete, andaccurate indicators of education status and trends; and report timely, useful, and high quality data to the U.S. Departmentof Education, the Congress, the states, other education policymakers, practitioners, data users, and the general public.