Blogs: Educational Attainment In The United States

Class in the United States refers more to personal income, educational attainment and occupational prestige for those of 25-year-old or older. although there are many people in the United States who believe that American society has ...

By 2000 the United States was the world's largest economy, with one of the highest economy-wide productivity levels supported by leading global companies in a wide array of industries. By many measures, at the opening of ... Increases in the educational attainment of American workers has nearly ceased, with more and more workers lacking the skills that needed to make America an attractive location for high-productivity, high-compensation jobs. The U.S. infrastructure is ...

Although a substantial minority of immigrants are highly skilled, for most immigrants incomes and educational attainment are significantly lower than for the native-born. Did the post-1965 immigration surge cause the Great Divergence? ...

Literacy is a human right, a tool of personal empowerment and a means for social and human development, so says the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). ... The United States however, still performs better in other age groups. It is ranked sixth in post-secondary attainment in the world among 25- to 64-year-olds. It ranks fourth in post-secondary attainment for citizens ages 55 to 64 and where it trails the Russian Federation, ...

Across educational attainment levels educational opportunity is increasingly determined by class privileges (or lack thereof) inherited at birth and untouched by public policy (at least in the United States since 1980)." (p. 2) ...

(The most chronically poor counties in the United States are in rural areas of Appalachia and in the South.) The effects of poverty are multiple and profound. Children who are born into families living in poverty generally do not receive adequate ... Parents living in poverty are more likely to have low educational attainment and less knowledge about early childhood education and brain development in infants. There are generally fewer books, educational toys and games, ...

... in smoking prevalence in the United States have stalled during the past 5 years; the burden of cigarette smoking continues to be high, especially in persons living below the federal poverty level and with low educational attainment. ...

Online students are able to work at their own pace and often finish faster than traditional students, by 2005 more than 3.2 million students were participating in on-line learning at institutions of higher education in the United States. ... A lot of female students today; regardless of their course and educational attainment, are still experiencing difficulties to land better jobs and opportunities compared to their male counterpart. Moreover, a lot of professional ...

Excelencia in Education expects to announce on Wednesday several plans to accelerate its national efforts to improve college completion among Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority group in the United States. ... President Obama has set an ambitious goal for the United States to become the top-ranked country in the world in college-degree attainment by 2020. To reach that, 3.3 million more Hispanic people than are now projected to complete college would have to earn ...

Montreal, QC (PRWEB) December 2, 2008 - Silanis Technology (LSE:SNS), the leader in electronic signatures, announced today that a top ten bank in the United States has selected the Silanis ApproveIt® Web Server to enable the electronic completion of consumer ... Recent data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development indicates the U.S. is now ranked 12th among industrialized countries in higher education attainment, with another half dozen on our heels. ...