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Academic Achievement; Developed Nations; Disadvantaged Youth; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Mathematics Achievement; Reading Achievement; Socioeconomic Status

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This report compares the relative effectiveness of education systems across the developed world. Data come from the Programme for International Student Assessment, Trends in International Maths and Science Study, and the International Adult Literacy Survey. Overall, educational performance in some OECD countries is consistently better than others. A child in Finland, Canada, or Korea has a higher chance of being educated to a reasonable standard and a lower chance of falling far behind than a child in Hungary, Denmark, Greece, the United States, or Germany. The percentage of 15-year-olds judged unable to solve basic reading tasks varies from under 7 percent in Korea and Finland to over 20 percent in Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Greece, and Portugal. High absolute standards of educational achievement are not incompatible with low levels of relative disadvantage. For OECD overall, the average gap between high and low math scores in the same year is approximately nine times the average progression between one year and the next. Between-school variance in educational performance is much higher in some countries than others. There is no simple relationship between level of educational disadvantage in a country and educational spending per pupil, pupil-teacher ratio, or degree of income equality. (SM) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Adolescents; Birth Rate; Comparative Analysis; Developed Nations; Early Parenthood; Foreign Countries; Pregnancy; Statistical Analysis

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This third Innocenti Report Card presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey so far of teenage birth rates in the industrialized world. And it attempts at least a partial analysis of why some countries have teenage birth rates that are ten or even fifteen times higher than others. The starting point is a new league table of teenage birth rates, showing the number of births per 1,000 15 to 19-year-olds in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations under review. Additional figures show how those rates have changed over the last 30 years. Data reveals that the five countries with the lowest teenage birth rates are Korea, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Sweden-- all with teen birth rates of fewer than 7 per 1,000. The United States teenage birth rate of 52.1 is the highest in the developed world-- and about four times the European Union average. As a contribution to the debate, this report draws on international experience and comparison to establish current facts and trends, to identify some of the forces that offer young people both motive and means to delay childbearing, and to look at what might be learnt from those societies that have already succeeded in reducing the problem. (Contains 44 references.) (GCP) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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