The National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools - This report presents standards that have been produced to provide a national articulation of defining characteristics and performance benchmarks that will enable all sponsors of Catholic elementary and secondary schools to assess, strengthen, and sustain their operations. (Center for Catholic School Effectiveness, School of Education, Loyola University Chicago, March 2012)...

United States Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools 2011-2012: The Annual Statistical Report on Schools, Enrollment and Staffing - This is a synopsis of an annual report that presents national data on Catholic elementary and secondary schools. Enrollment patterns, regional geographic trends, types and locations of schools, student and staffing demographic characteristics and student participation in selected education programs are reported. Where data permit, the exhibits compare information across the last decade as well as the past five years. (National Catholic Educational Association, March 2012)...

Characteristics of Private Schools in the United States: Results From the 2009-10 Private School Universe Study--First Look - Among the findings of this study: More private school students were enrolled in kindergarten than any other grade; 68% of private schools had a religious orientation or purpose; in 2009-10 there were 200,000 or more students enrolled in private schools in each of the following states--California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. (National Center for Education Statistics, 2011)...

Making it Happen: Increasing College Access and Participation in California Higher Education--The Role of Private Postsecondary Providers - By 2025, California will face an estimated shortfall of one million workers with skills learned in college. The state's fiscal resources have evaporated and the postsecondary and community college systems are over capacity. This report looks at how private postsecondary providers can help the state address the problem. The authors of this report suggest eight changes which, in combination, will greatly improve the situation. (National University System Institute for Policy Research, March 2011)...

Certification and Private School Teachers' Transfers to Public Schools - This report examines teachers' transitions between public and private schools for teachers with and without certifications in the subjects they teach. In three out of four time periods examined, higher percentages of movers who held state certification in year two of the time period only switched to public schools than did those without regular state certifications in their main assignment in either year of the time period. In all four time periods for which data were collected, higher percentages of movers with regular state certifications in both years of the time period moved to public schools than did their peers without the certification. However, regardless of certification status, 11% or fewer of private school teachers changed schools during any 2-year period. (Emily W. Holt, Mary McLaughlin and Daniel J. McGrath, National Center for Education Statistics, September 2006) ...

Private School Teacher Turnover and Teacher Perceptions of School Organizational Characteristics - This issue brief examines teacher turnover in private schools as a whole, and in three categories: (1) Catholic; (2) other religious; and (3) nonsectarian. The brief also discusses the perceptions of private school teachers in five areas: (1) administrative support; (2) salary; (3) students discipline; (4) teacher input in classroom decisions; and (5) teacher input in school decisions. Data are disaggregated for all teachers, those who stayed in the same position and those who moved schools or left the profession. (National Center for Education Statistics, June 2005)...

Characteristics of Private Schools in the United States: Results from the 2001-2002 Private School Universe Survey - Statistics on private schools are reported by: (1) type of school (nonsectarian and religious, by religion); (2) school level; (3) program emphasis (i.e., regular, special education, Montessori, etc.); (4) school enrollment; (5) geographic region; and (6) community type (central city, urban fringe and rural/small town). Figures are reported on the school, student and full-time equivalent teachers, school type and state levels. Pupil/teacher ratios also are disaggregated by type of school. Some findings: the South has the most private schools of any region, nearly one-third of the nation’s total. While “other religious” (non-Catholic) schools comprise nearly 50% of the private schools in the United States, Catholic schools serve by far the greatest number of private school students, 47.1%, or over 2.5 million. The program emphasis for the vast majority (92.4%) of private schools is regular elementary or secondary education. (Stephen P. Broughman and Kathleen W. Pugh, National Center for Education Statistics, October 2004)...

A Brief Profile of America's Private Schools - Using data gleaned from the 1999-2000 U.S. Department of Education Schools and Staffing Survey, this report provides of snapshot of private K-12 schools nationwide, including Catholic, other religious and nonsectarian institutions. Data report school and student characteristics, and teacher and principal goals and attitudes. (Barbara Holton, National Center for Education Statistics, June 2003)...