Arts credits earned in high school and postsecondary enrollment: Differences by background characteristics

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width="78%" class="TextSectionTitle" itemprop="name">Arts credits earned in high school and postsecondary enrollment: Differences by background characteristics</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="22%"><strong>Description:</strong></td> <td width="78%" itemprop="description">This Data Point uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), a national study of more than 23,000 ninth-graders in 2009. Arts credits earned by high school graduates are examined by background characteristics. The Data Point shows differences in postsecondary enrollment by numbers of arts credits earned in high school. </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Online Availability:</strong></td> <td class="LinkList"> <ul> <li><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2021/2021006.pdf">Download, view and print the report as a pdf file.</a> <img src="/images/icons/acrobatsm.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="PDF File" border="0" align="top" /> <span>(93KB)</span></li><li><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2021/data/2021006.xlsx" onclick="return DataUseAgrmnt(this,true);" oncontextmenu="return DataUseAgrmnt(this,false);">View supplemental tables on arts credit earning.</a> <img src="/icons/smallxls.gif" align="bottom" alt="Excel File" border="0" width="16" height="16" /> <span>(50.4KB)</span></li><li><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2021/2021006/index.asp">Browse this document.</a> <img src="/icons/link_icon.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Link Icon" border="0" align="top" /></li> </ul>  </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Cover Date:</strong></td> <td>September 2021</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Web Release:</strong></td> <td>September 14, 2021</td> </tr> <tr valign="top" itemscope itemprop="identifier" itemtype="https://schema.org/PropertyValue"> <td><strong><span itemprop="propertyID">Publication #</span>:</strong></td> <td><span itemprop="value">NCES 2021006</span><br /> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Center/Program:</strong></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="index.asp?HasSearched=1&centername=NCES&center=NCES">NCES</a></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Authors:</strong></td> <td itemprop="author">Christopher, Elise M; Daniel, Bruce</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Type of Product:</strong></td> <td><a href="index.asp?HasSearched=1&searchcat2=producttype&pubtype=043">Data Point</a></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Survey/Program Areas:</strong></td> <td> <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/hsls09/">High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09)</a><br /> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Keywords:</strong></td> <td> <div class="SideList" itemprop="keywords"> <a href="index.asp?HasSearched=1&searchcat2=subjectindex&L1=93&L2=0">Arts Education</a><br /> Coursetaking/Transcripts<br/> <div style="padding-left:20px;">• <a href="index.asp?HasSearched=1&searchcat2=subjectindex&L1=81&L2=3">course credit</a></div> High School<br/> <div style="padding-left:20px;">• <a href="index.asp?HasSearched=1&searchcat2=subjectindex&L1=251&L2=2">high school graduates</a></div> <a href="index.asp?HasSearched=1&searchcat2=subjectindex&L1=177&L2=0">Longitudinal Studies</a><br /> Secondary Education<br/> <div style="padding-left:20px;">• <a href="index.asp?HasSearched=1&searchcat2=subjectindex&L1=138&L2=1">longitudinal studies</a></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><strong>Questions:</strong></td> <td> For questions about the content of this <strong>Data Point</strong>, please contact:<br /><a 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