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This is a list of 189 countries ordered by the median number of years that the people in them go to school. The source data comes from the Human Development Index from the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report. The latest report was released on 14 September 2018 and is based on data collected in 2017. [1]
Since 2010, the education index has been measured by combining average adult years of schooling with expected years of schooling for students under the age of 25, each receiving 50% weighting. Before 2010, the education index was measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary ...
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading. [1]
In 2004, Junior secondary school enrollment was only 17% of primary school enrollment, and senior secondary school enrollment was only 8% of primary school education. [ 4 ] The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) [ 5 ] finds that Sierra Leone is fulfilling only 84.3% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based on the ...
The Education Department considered this direct measure of literacy more accurate than a 1979 estimate which inferred literacy from the number of years of education completed. [32] Data from the ELPS were presented in a 1986 Census Bureau report which concluded that 13% of adults living in the United States were illiterate in English. [32]
A corrections officer at an Ohio prison was killed Christmas day when an inmate attacked him, authorities said Wednesday. The assault occurred Wednesday morning at the Ross Correctional ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when H. Lee Scott, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 37.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
The Christmas to New Year's Eve holiday period was defined as Dec. 24 through Jan. 1. Unless otherwise noted, all fatality statistics are the sum of total fatalities from 2003 to 2022 (the most ...