{"id":310,"date":"2008-09-19T11:57:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wherewestand\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-09-19T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:58:45","slug":"statistics-did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wherewestand\/blog\/statistics-did-you-know\/310\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics &#8211; Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>WHERE WE STAND: AMERICA&#8217;S SCHOOLS IN THE 21ST CENTURY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fact Sheet<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1995, the U.S. ranked #1 in the world in college graduation rate. In 2005, it was 15th.1 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Out of 30 developed countries, U.S. students rank 25th in math and 21st in science.2 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>U.S. Chamber of Commerce gives most states a C, D, or F in preparing kids for the workplace. 3 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>In 1970, the average college graduate earned around 45% more than a high-school graduate, today the gap is 84%.4<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The U.S. spends 7.4% of its gross domestic product on education. It ranks at the bottom worldwide in percentage of federal spending on education.5 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Last year, the U.S. spent $489.4 billion to educate an estimated 49.6 million K-12 students in public school.6 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>24 out of 50 states spend less per pupil in low income districts than affluent ones. 45 out of 50 states have had lawsuits over school funding.7 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>While 40% of U.S. high schools do not offer college prep classes, 1.2 million high school students took Advanced Placement (AP) exams in 2005, more than twice the number in 1997.8 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>87% of Americans have finished high school before their 30th birthday. 30% have bachelor&#8217;s degrees.9 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Last year, Americans earned 699,000 associate&#8217;s degrees, 1.5 million bachelor&#8217;s degrees, 631,000 master&#8217;s degrees, and 55,300 doctoral degrees.10<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development<\/a>  (OECD) <\/p>\n<p>2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pisa.oecd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OECD Programme for International School Assessment<\/a> (PISA)<\/p>\n<p>3 U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n<p>4 Laura D&#8217;Andrea Tyson, chair of Bill Clinton&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers, 1996. <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v54\/i46\/46b01001.htm\" target=\"_blank\">See citation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>5 <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/education\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=48712&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization<\/a> (UNESCO)<\/p>\n<p>6 <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Center for Education Statistics<\/a> (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences<\/p>\n<p>7 Campaign for Equitable Funding<\/p>\n<p>8 NCES<\/p>\n<p>9 NCES<\/p>\n<p>10 NCES<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHERE WE STAND: AMERICA&#8217;S SCHOOLS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Fact Sheet In 1995, the U.S. ranked #1 in the world in college graduation rate. In 2005, it was 15th.1 Out of 30 developed countries, U.S. students rank 25th in math and 21st in science.2 U.S. Chamber of Commerce gives most states a C, D, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[505],"tags":[1835],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-fact-sheet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Statistics - Did you know? | Where We Stand | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wherewestand\/blog\/statistics-did-you-know\/310\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Statistics - Did you know? | Where We Stand | PBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WHERE WE STAND: AMERICA&#8217;S SCHOOLS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Fact Sheet In 1995, the U.S. ranked #1 in the world in college graduation rate. 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