Parent Expectations and Planning for College - NCES

Here is the abbreviated abstract of a new report published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), authored by: Laura Lippman, Lina Guzman, Julie Dombrowski, Keith Akemi Kinukawa, Rebecca Shwalb, Child Trends, and Peter Tice: Parent Expectations and Planning for College: Statistical Analysis Report.


"This report examines the characteristics associated with the educational expectations parents had for their children and the postsecondary education planning practices families and schools engaged in.


The results presented in this report are based on a sample of students in grades 6 through 12 who represented the 28,182,000 students in grades 6 through 12 in the United States in early 2003.

The data revealed that 91 percent of the students had parents who expected them to continue their education beyond high school, with about two-thirds (65 percent) having had parents who expected them to finish college."


To read more about parents levels of planning for their child's college education and what parents are providing for their children in terms of educational cost, see: Parent Expectations and Planning for College: Statistical Analysis Report