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Historical comparisons are complicated because the SAT has been redesigned multiple times and College Board percentiles are recalibrated so a given scaled score is meant to represent similar standing ...
Available sources do not agree on a single “79%” figure without qualifications: several nonprofit and blog-style compilations repeat a 79% U.S. adult literacy number for 2024–2025 (for example, The Na...
The available sources indicate the national average composite SAT (VERBAL + MATH) for mid‑1960s college‑bound seniors was roughly in the high 400s to low 500s; one commonly cited figure for the early‑...
Direct, official conversion tables that map 1965 SAT scores onto modern (post-2016 or current) percentiles are not presented in the supplied search results; instead, reporting and technical papers doc...
Colleges can and do change CIP codes or program descriptions through internal review and Registrar processes, but available reporting does not show a systematic wave of institutions reclassifying prog...
In 1965 the SAT percentiles were anchored to the pool of college‑bound high‑school seniors taking the test that year; modern College Board reports use two percentile types — “SAT User” percentiles bas...
The available reporting portrays the United States as facing a multifaceted literacy challenge: roughly one in five adults are described as having low literacy (about 21%), and large shares of adults ...
The available federal and scholarly reporting does not provide a comprehensive count of crimes committed by school faculty "in school" across the entire 20th and 21st centuries, so a single numeric an...
The best available national figures indicate a U.S. public-school four‑year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) near 87 percent in recent national reporting and summaries used through 2024–25, whil...
The Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is actively revising IPEDS for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 collection cycle and has sought Office of Management and Budget (OM...
There is no clear statement in the provided reporting that SAT score reports from the 1960s are “public records” under law; available guidance instead shows the College Board retains and can send arch...
Regulatory and classification decisions about whether a program is labeled vocational, academic, or professional rest on different criteria across systems: program content and intent (occupational vs....
The Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) is maintained by NCES and is updated roughly every ten years; the current widely used revision is CIP 2020 and NCES publishes the full lookup/browse ...
Historic federal reporting shows the SAT was normed early to a mean of 500 with a standard deviation (SD) of 100 on the 200–800 subscore scale (i.e., 1000 mean on a 400–1600 total) for mid‑20th centur...
Federal classification systems like the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) are taxonomies of instructional fields used for reporting and policy, but they do not themselves define “professi...
CIP (Classification of Instructional Programs) is a federal taxonomy that groups instructional programs by six‑digit codes: the first two digits name a broad subject area (e.g., 51 = “Health Professio...
Available sources do not provide a 2025 Department of Education definition that explicitly labels certain CIP codes as “non‑professional”; the Department’s CIP taxonomy is maintained by NCES and is a ...
Available sources in the provided search results do not list any 2025 Department of Education designation of “non‑professional” CIP codes; the NCES CIP user site and search tools are referenced but do...
The U.S. Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) uses hierarchical codes at two-, four- and six-digit levels; four‑digit CIP codes name intermediate program groupings such as “11.01 Computer an...
Journalists and fact-checkers have tracked a persistent pattern of changing and often inaccurate educational claims by Donald Trump, documenting specific falsehoods about U.S. international rankings, ...