As the nation's students and teachers return to school, here are selected statistics about American schools, students, and the educational process. The information was compiled by IES and derives from the Institute's research and statistical centers. Follow the accompanying links for additional information.
This new database, launched in July 2005, contains more than 75 measures of child well-being, including the 10 measures used in our annual KIDS COUNT Data Book. It includes the most timely data available on Education, Employment and Income, Poverty, Health, Basic Demographics, and Youth Risk Factors for the U.S., all 50 states, and D.C. Depending on availability, three to five years of trend data
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By 2013 Mrs von der Leyen wants to treble the number of available nursery places to 750,000, covering one-third of Germany's under-threes. That, she argues, will make it easier for mothers to work, and encourage them to have more children: Germany has the lowest birth rate in rich Europe, with 1.3 children per woman compared with 1.9 in France and 1.8 in Sweden. The birth rate among
There were two developments this week in Europe's battle with declining birthrates and aging populations. In Germany, the government just raised the retirement age to 67:
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Great for teachers and students! By providing easy to use demographic information we hope to influence your decision making in possitive ways. Thematic maps help us discover trends and patterns more readily than other data presentation formats.
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Unemployment and political disenfranchisement have created a generation of frustrated, angry young men in the Middle East. Now there's another reason why young men from Morocco to Iran are becoming even more frustrated and fed up.
Poverty is another country, one with languages, cultures, assumptions and patterns which are quite different from the ones those of us who live in the wealthier parts of the world take for granted. If we want to think clearly about sustainable development, we need to see more clearly the nature of poverty itself. Here are a few resources that have given us some "aha!" moments:
The EU recently released fertility statistics for the EU-25, and the new numbers point to an increasing number of Europeans choosing to have children out of wedlock (32.2%) vs. inside marriage (67.8%). The leaders of this trend, as the map from EUROSTAT at right shows, are the Scandinavian countries. In Denmark, for example, 60% of firstborns have unmarried parents. That figure hits 80% in certain districts of Norway.
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As the nation's students and teachers return to school, here are selected statistics about American schools, students, and the educational process. The information was compiled by IES and derives from the Institute's research and statistical centers. Follow the accompanying links for additional information.
Raving ravens By 2013 Mrs von der Leyen wants to treble the number of available nursery places to 750,000, covering one-third of Germany's under-threes. That, she argues, will make it easier for mothers to work, and encourage them to have more children: Germany has the lowest birth rate in rich Europe, with 1.3 children per woman compared with 1.9 in France and 1.8 in Sweden. The birth rate among
Data360 is a site where you can find, present and share data. Data360 has been created to provide clear context on important cultural, environmental, social and economic issues.
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