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Together, we can change the statistics.
In New York City, approximately 39% of students who enter ninth grade each fall fail to graduate with their peers four years later. At the same time, many children from under served neighborhoods cannot read proficiently by third grade despite having made great strides in quality early education programs like Head Start.
The two are connected in more ways than one. Ample evidence suggests that students who can't read by third grade are far more likely to drop out of high school. Additionally, these two groups share a common problem--they're not being adequately supported during critical transitions in their education. Many students get to ninth grade only to find that they aren't prepared for high school-level work. They fall behind, stop going to class, and then eventually drop out. Children in pre-school make the move to elementary school and struggle in their new environment, in part because the early education system and the public school system use significantly different teaching and family engagement strategies.
Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day.
More than a quarter of high school freshmen fail to graduate from high school on time.
On average, only 58% of students in America's 50 largest cities make it to graduation.
More than one in four Hispanic youth drop out, and nearly half leave by the eighth grade.
Hispanics are twice as likely as African Americans to drop out. White and Asian American students are least likely to drop out.
In the last 20 years, the earnings level of dropouts doubled, while it nearly tripled for college graduates.
Recent dropouts will earn $200,000 less than high school graduates, and over $800,000 less than college graduates, in their lives.
Dropouts make up nearly half the heads of households on welfare.
In the U.S., high school dropouts commit about 75 percent of crimes.
The dropout problem is likely to increase substantially through 2020 unless significant improvements are made.
America’s high school graduation rate ranks 19th in the world. (Forty years ago, we were number one.)
In order for us to make a change, we have to change the way we eat, the way we live, & most importantly the way we learn.
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The Chinese education system places strong emphasis on math and sciences. (File Photo/CFP)
A US media report has expressed concern that while China tends to be governed by scientists and its children record high marks in science, in the United States celebrities have taken up many positions in Congress and US students' arithmetic abilities rank 25th out of 34 countries.
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TG Daily said both the Chinese president and premier are engineers and eight out of China's top nine government officials are scientists, whereas only 22 US lawmakers out of 535 members of Congress have science backgrounds.
Although the United States has the greatest academic institutions in the world, their students are increasingly from overseas. According to Forbes, 70% of PhD engineering student in US universities are from abroad.
In 2009, more than 50% of US patents were issued to non-US companies, while China replaced America as the number one hi-tech exporter, TG Daily said.
Nevertheless, the US still attracts foreign talent and investment; almost 31% of US top inventors are foreign-born, the newspaper said.
Students from Shanghai’s schools outperformed those from 65 countries/regions, according to report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which has tested high-school students since 2000. Shanghai students were followed by Korea (#2), Finland (#3), Hong Kong (#4), and Canada (#5). U.S. students ranked #24.
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