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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 ...
Overall, 90.3% of Americans over the age of 25 had graduated from high school in 2021, with the highest level found in the state of Massachusetts at 96.1% and the lowest in the state of California at 84.4%. In Puerto Rico, the proportion was even lower, though, at 79.6%. [1]
Malaysian primary school consists of six years of education, referred to as Year 1 to Year 6 (formerly Standard 1 to Standard 6). Year 1–3 are classified as Level One (Tahap Satu in Malay) while Year 4–6 make up Level Two (Tahap Dua). Primary schooling usually begins at the age of 7 and ends at 12.
A similar pattern is also seen in high school education, where, in 2016, 7.1% of males, but only 5.1% of females dropped out of high school. [14] In 2015/2016, 56 percent of college students were female and 44 percent were male.
The pandemic forced schools to pivot to virtual learning in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. New research shows how remote learning has hurt some students' academic performance.
Data collected through the IPEDS system replaces the previous U.S. Census and NCES Academic Libraries Survey, which collected data from institutions every other even-number year and was not mandatory. In March 2024, the NCES announced that it would be retiring the Academic Libraries survey after the 2024-2025 data collection period. [2]
The sticker price for a college education can be quite shocking. In 2020-21, the cost of tuition and fees for a full-time student at a public four-year in-state school was $10,560, according to the...