YEAR IN REVIEW 2000: EDUCATION

Education Topics in education that commanded attention in 1999 included politicians' educational decisions, the supply of teachers, violence in the schools, church-state relationships, technological advances, university consortia, new types of higher-education institutions, and student political activities. School and college attendance in the U.S. set new records as 53.2 million pupils entered public and private schools (half a million more than in 1998) and 14.9 million enrolled in colleges. School enrollments, which had been increasing since 1985, were expected to continue rising until they reached a plateau in 2006.