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State 4-year graduation rates, 2010-11

Iowa 88% Vermont 87% Wisconsin 87% Indiana 86% Nebraska 86% New Hampshire 86% North Dakota 86% Tennessee 86% Texas 86% Illinois 84% Maine 84%

School districts with the most students enrolled in charter schools, 2011-12

Los Angeles 98,576

New York City 48,057

Detroit 47,086

Philadelphia 46,801

Chicago 44,870

Miami 41,767

Houston 40,549

New Orleans 32,597

Washington, D.C. 31,562

Broward County, Fla. 30,438

Source: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Ten states with the highest Parent Power Index

Indiana 84.0% Florida 83.0% Ohio 79.0% Arizona 78.0% District of Columbia 77.0% Louisiana 76.0% Pennsylvania 75.5% Utah 75.0% Minnesota 74.5% Wisconsin 74.0% Source: Center for Education Reform

*Parent Power Index "measures the ability in each state of a parent to exercise choices...engage with their local school and board, and have a voice in the systems that surround their child." The index takes into account access to charter schools, school choice and online learning; the level of teacher quality, and the transparency of education data.)

Top Ten finalists for the 2013 Aspen Prize, which honors community colleges for outstanding performance and outstanding improvements.

• Brazosport College, Lake Jackson, Texas
• Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
• College of the Ouachitas, Malvern, Ark.
• Kingsborough Community College - City University of New York, Brooklyn
• Lake Area Technical Institute, Watertown, S.D.
• Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, Calif.
• Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Fla.
• Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, Cumberland, Ky.
• Walla Walla Community College, Walla Walla, Wash.
• West Kentucky Community and Technical College, Paducah, Ky.

• States (and Washington, D.C.) with the highest percentage enrollment of students who were English Language Learners, 2009-10

  California 28.9%
  Nevada 16.0%
  New Mexico 15.5%
  Texas 15.0%
  Colorado 11.4%
  Arizona 11.1%
  Oregon 11.0%
  Hawaii 10.0%
  Washington, D.C. 9.6%
  Florida 8.8%
  

  Source: U.S. Department of Education, "The Condition of Education 2012"

  States with greatest prek-12 Enrollment growth, 1989-90 to 2010-11

  Nevada 134.0%
  Arizona 76.4%
  Colorado 49.9%
  Georgia 48.9%
  Texas 48.3%
  Florida 47.7%
  North Carolina 37.9%
  Utah 33.5%
  Delaware 32.3%
  California 31.8%
  

  Source: U.S. Department of Education, "The Condition of Education 2012"

  World’s Top Research Universities

  California Institute of Technology

  University of Oxford

  Stanford University

  Harvard University

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Princeton University

  University of Cambridge

  Imperial College London

  University of California, Berkeley

  University of Chicago

  Source: Times Higher Education