Iowa homeschoolers are celebrating the passage by the state legislature of HF215 on May 22nd and Governor Branstad’s subsequent signature on June 3rd. The education reform bill, which comes into effect on July 1st, adds Iowa to a list of 10 other states which virtually give homeschool parents a free hand in the education of their children. In […Full Article]
This article has several statistics from several sources on the U.S. education system compared to other countries. The Broad Foundation reported the following: U.S. ranks 21st in high school graduation rate compared to other industrialized nations. U.S. students rank 25th in math compared to other industrialized nations. U.S. students rank 21st in science compared to […Full Article]
Don Vergano in USAToday in December 2010 reported on U.S. education and how it compares to other countries: 43% of U.S. high school graduates meet college readiness standards for mathematics. 78% of U.S. parents believe their children to be in the top 20% in math performance. That figure is statistically impossible as only 20% of […Full Article]
Daniel de Vise in The Washington Post in November 2010 reported on the graduation rates at for-profit colleges. 55% of students enrolled in public universities graduate. 65% of students enrolled in private non-profit universities graduate. The graduation rate at for-profit universities is 22%. The University of Phoenix is the largest for-profit college with 238,326 students. […Full Article]
Common Good reported the following statistics: 88% of superintendents say that keeping up with all the government (local, state, and federal) mandates takes up too much time. 54% of superintendents and 48% of principals say they “must work around the system” to “get things done the way they want.” 81% of superintendents and 47% of […Full Article]
The American Human Development Project, a nonpartisan initiative, completed their The Measure of America report. It measures three categories: health, education, and income. Some of the findings are as follows: U.S. life expectancy is 78.6 years, the same life expectancy for Chile. Chile spends 10% of what the U.S. spends on health care. The 11 […Full Article]
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education regularly produces “The National Report Card on Higher Education.” According to the report, the rates of college participation in the U.S. has declined relative to other countries. The U.S. ranked 2nd in college participation just over 10 years ago. Now, the U.S. ranks 7th among 29 […Full Article]
David J. Lynch in USA Today in November 2008 reported: 93% of all students graduate from high school in South Korea A little over 75% of all students graduate from high school in the U.S. “An experienced secondary-school teacher makes almost 25% more [in South Korea] than a comparable American teacher The South Korean government […Full Article]
Bachelor’s degree recipients as a percentage of the population of the typical ages of graduation, by country: 2004 NOTE: Includes graduates of any age. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education Online Database. To view additional information, click on National Center for Education Statistics.
Public direct expenditures for education as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), by country: 2003 NOTE: Includes all government expenditures for education institutions, plus public subsidies to households for living costs that are not spent at education institutions. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, 2006. For additional […Full Article]