NationMaster - American Education statistics

Average years of schooling of adults	12	[1st of 100]
Duration of compulsory education	12 years	[12th of 171]
Duration of education > Primary level	6	[83rd of 181]
Education spending (% of GDP)	5.7%	[39th of 132]
Female enrolment share > Secondary level	49%	[92nd of 170]
Female teachers > Lower secondary	60.2%	[14th of 20]
Grade 12 advanced students math	442	[15th of 15]
Grade 12 advanced students science	423	[16th of 15]
Mathematical literacy	493	[18th of 27]
Primary teacher salary > Starting	$25,707.00	[5th of 22]
School life expectancy > Male	14.8 years	[16th of 97]
School life expectancy > Total	15.2 years	[14th of 110]
Student attitude > Dislike of school	35%	[5th of 17]
Student attitude > Report class disorder	28%	[11th of 17]
Students from households with calculator > Age 13	96%	[16th of 28]
Students from households with calculator > Age 9	91%	[3rd of 16]
Students from households with computer > Age 13	54%	[13th of 28]
Students from households with computer > Age 9	51%	[5th of 16]
Students from households with study desk > Age 9	81%	[8th of 16]
Students whose mothers have secondary education > Age 13	75%

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SOURCES: UNESCO; United Nations Human Development Programme; UNESCO Institute of Statistics; TIMSS; OECD; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; OECD; "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

COMMENTARY

Barrison (Provo, UT) 22nd February 2007	Hi I'm not sure if anyone actually looks at this page but I need some of statistics comparing US students to those of the rest of the world. I heard somewhere that we were way way behind most other countries, even behind those countries far behind us in economic terms. Help please! Thanks.
Tim (Taiwan) 13th May 2007	Compulsory education in the United States is controled by each state and it is not 12 years.
Scott Bell (USA) 28th October 2007	Compulsory education is mandated by teh federal government, although the implementation is left up to the individual states. The first eight grades are mandatory and teh remaining four of the twelve can only be opted out from by special dispensation; e.g.: hardship or emancipation. I am surprised that literacy rates are not listed here.

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