School Enrollment Rate by Age: 1970, 1980, 2006 I’ve previously discussed how the effective high school graduation rate is higher than critics of the education system will acknowledge. But graduation is an arbitrary demarcation along the learning curve for most...
Federal Spending on Education and Related Programs: 2005 and 2006 Level, agency, and program 2005 2006 Total, all programs $145.9 billion $166.5 billion Percent of federal budget outlays 5.9% 6.3% Elementary/secondary education programs $68.9 billion $70.9 billion...
For those of you that like the feel of pulped wood in your hands, a list of some of the most recommended business books of 2008. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life A Sense of Urgency The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to...
The American psyche is prone to fits of fear that we are falling behind the world. In reality however, we’ve concluded...
Contrary to popular belief, high school students have made significant academic progress in math over the last twenty years. There are two ways to assess the progress of public education in this country: (i) how well students are educated now compared to their...
The American psyche is prone to fits of paranoia and hysteria about our collective status in the world. Less than a decade into the massification of the internet, a feat brought about in no small part by American technology and genius, we are being inundated with...
