[Lmresearch] New OECD report--Education at a Glance 2006

[Russell W. Rumberger]

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            Education at a Glance 2006 

            Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education. The 2006 edition of Education at a Glance enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education internationally.

            The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it and how education systems operate and at the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of student's performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and on adults' chances of employment.

            Highlights from U.S. Briefing Notes:

              a.. In the United States some 39% of the adult population aged 25-to-64 years are qualified to the tertiary level, well above the OECD average of 31%.
              b.. Although the [university] graduation rate for the United States increased slightly over this period [2000 to 2004], from 33% to 34%, other countries rates' grew faster with the result that the graduation rate for the United States in 2004 was slightly below the OECD average.
              c.. The penalties from not completing upper secondary education are visible in earnings levels and their distribution and these penalties are more severe in the United States than in almost every other OECD country. For instance, the earnings of a 25-to-64-year-old without upper secondary completion in the United States are only 65% of someone who has these qualifications, the greatest income disadvantage of all OECD countries reporting data (Table A9.1a, p.136).
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