AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION DATABASES Printed for the use of the Committee on Governmental Affairs 24-607 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1990 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office 04/93 53-005-0088 S. HRG. 101-411 QUALITY OF U.S. EDUCATION INFORMATION HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT INFORMATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OVERVIEW OF NATIONAL GOALS AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION DATABASES Printed for the use of the Committee on Governmental Affairs 24-607 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1990 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office SAM NUNN, Georgia CARL LEVIN, Michigan HERBERT KOHL, Wisconsin WARREN B. RUDMAN, New Hampshire JOHN HEINZ, Pennsylvania Edwin S. Jayne, Staff Director James Carroll, Minority Staff Director Christopher T. Cross, Assistant Secretary for Education Research and Im- provement, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, accompanied by Jeanne Griffith, Ph.D., Acting Director, Cross-Cutting Education Statis- tics and Analysis Division, and David Sweet, Director, Elementary and Chester E. Finn, Jr., professor of education and public policy, Vanderbilt Denis P. Doyle, senior research fellow, Hudson Institute, Chevy Chase, MD.. H. Dickson Corbett, director, Research for Better Schools, Philadelphia, PA..... Ernest Boyer, Ph.D., president, Princeton Office, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ.. Emerson J. Elliott, Acting Commissioner, National Center for Education Sta- tistics, Department of Education, Washington, DC, accompanied by Jeanne Lois-ellin Datta, Ph.D., Director for Program Evaluation in Human Services Areas, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, U.S. General Ac- |