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120 Years ofAmerican Education :A Statistical PortraitEditorThomas D. SnyderCenter for Education Department of EducationLamar AlexanderSecretaryOffice of Educational Research and ImprovementDiane RavitchAssistant SecretaryNational Center for Education StatisticsEmerson J. ElliottCommissionerNational Center for Education Statistics The purpose of the Center shall be to collect, analyze,and disseminate Statistics and other data related to edu-cation in the United States and in other nations. Sec-tion 406(b) of the General Education Provisions Act,as amended (20 1221e 1).January 1993iiiForewordEmerson J. ElliottCommissioner of Education StatisticsNCES Statistics and reports are used for myriadpurposes. Congress, federal agencies, state andlocal officials, business leaders, scholars and re-searchers, the news media, and the general publicuse our data to formulate programs, apportion re-sources, monitor services, research issues, and in-form and make 1870, the federal government has collectedstatistics on the condition and progress of Americaneducation.

education statistics, including the annual Digest and the Condition of Education reports, and reaffirms the mission of the National Center for Education Statis-tics to provide the Nation with data on the condition and progress of education. Our goal is to make edu-cation data accessible, useful, and meaningful to our many publics.

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