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Education Around
The World
Australia
What’s up down under? Education for all. Placing
at the top of the Education Index in the United
Nations’ Human Development Report, the country-
continent of 24 million expects students will
complete an impressive 20-plus years of schooling
(The U.S., for comparison, expects 16). In fact,
100% of preschool, primary- and secondary-school
age kids are enrolled — and 94% of citizens over
25 have at least some secondary education. Hand-
in-hand with full classrooms (in a teacher-student
ratio of 14:1), Australia admirably supports its
educators. The nation gives incentives to teachers
taking rural hardship postings and, according to
the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s 2015 Education
for All Global Monitoring Report, is taking notable
“steps toward pay parity for teachers at all levels.”
Japan
Thanks to an intense focus on academics
starting at age 6 (the primary school drop
out rate is just .2 percent), Japan’s students
have scoring well down to a science.
Ranking No. 2 in Pearson Education’s
annual global educational performance
report and placing fourth in reading and
seventh in math in the influential Program
for International Student Assessment (PISA)
survey — which tests 15-year-old students
worldwide in order to compare countries’
education systems — the Pacific Ocean
island nation is serious about learning. And
it’s paid off: The literacy rate of their 127
million citizens is 99 percent.
South Korea