Statistics About Education in America. View full-size The literacy rates among fourth grade students in America are sobering. In a recent report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, one out of three students scored "below basic" on the 2009 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Reading Test. Among these low performing students, 49 percent come from low-income families. Even more alarming is the fact that more than 67 percent of all US fourth graders scored "below proficient," meaning they are not reading at grade level.
Reading proficiency among middle and high school students isn't much better. View full-size In the growing global marketplace, students will need to excel in both math and science to compete internationally as engineers, scientists, physicians, and creative entrepreneurs. In April 2009, Education Week reported that average math and reading scores for 17-year-olds in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests have remained stagnant since the 1970s. Dominium Mundi, The Empire of Management. Information aesthetics. Boosting jobs and skills. Alexandra managed to get back to work in Paris only three months after being made redundant in 2009. Impressive considering that the unemployment rate was over 10% at the time, one of the highest in the last two decades. And even more impressive given that Alexandra is 58, only two years younger than the age at which most French women retire from working.
But Alexandra's “exception française” may become the norm in the years ahead. The French government announced plans in 2009 to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 and the full pensionable age from 65 to 67. OECD analysis suggests that at the time of publication, unemployment had peaked in developed economies at 10%. The short-term need to help the unemployed find work again is clear. For the crisis is likely to have changed the job market forever. The question is how. At the same time, over the last 30 years the proportion of adults with university degrees has increased significantly. 7th Grader Debates Well at Model Congress | Barista Kids. 7th Grader Debates Well at Model Congress BY Kristen Kemp | Tuesday, Dec 21, 2010 3:00pm | COMMENTS (1) Congratulations to Hunter Finan, 13, from Mount Hebron Middle School. The 13-year-old recently brought home a first place award from Model Congress.
Hunter, see left, started out in the Model UN debate team and found himself interested in Model Congress, too. He participated in the Eighth Annual Middle School Model Congress (MidMC) alongside 100 Glenfield students, 65 from Renaissance and 52 from his own school on December 7. MidMC provides kids the chance to write, discuss, and debate mock bills, much like members of Congress do.
Hunter was on the military spending team where he earned his first place award. The Federal Pie Chart.