Figure 1: percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Top performers in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Humanities, arts, computing and engineering degrees awarded by gender, USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Figure 1: Percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in humanities and arts qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
Figure 2: percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in computing qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
Figure 3: Percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in engineering, manufacturing and construction qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
Tertiary education attainment of young adults in Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK and Canada, 2000 and 2011
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Figure 1: tertiary educational attainment of adults aged 25 to 34 in Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK and Canada, 2000 and 2011
Source: OECD Factbook.
The academic bias that dare not speak its name
23 Jun 2015 2 Comments
Academic libs in soc sci and humanities, cons in business and nursing, moderates in engineering and computer sci http://t.co/ixwbWb5M6X—
Whyvert (@whyvert) May 23, 2015
More on the college premium and economic mobility
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"…most powerful instrument of economic mobility for low-income ppl is 4 yr college degree." nyti.ms/1ji4fTl http://t.co/94xbbJW4Ny—
Equitable Growth (@equitablegrowth) May 15, 2014
There is a lot of truth in this
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The rise and rise of educational attainment
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Average years of schooling in US over time. Rise slowed in the 1970s. brook.gs/14C4Kmo http://t.co/abs2A8BvAx—
Richard V. Reeves (@RichardvReeves) January 09, 2015
The costs of teacher tenure in the USA
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Education and single motherhood
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There's a clear increase in single-parent households for parents who haven’t gone to college: on.wsj.com/1B1Xeuq http://t.co/eW2fH8bX5O—
Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) May 17, 2015
Every 20 years we worry about losing jobs to technology
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Every 20 years we worry about losing jobs to tech. books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c… http://t.co/KW47Iwzsp9—
James Bessen (@JamesBessen) August 10, 2014
The education premium has immediate effects
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http://t.co/t1Pym23Wgv—
EPI Chart Bot (@epichartbot) May 27, 2015
Gender differences in PISA scores, 2012, UK, USA, New Zealand and Australia
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Boys’ dominance just about endures in maths: at age 15 they are, on average, the equivalent of three months’ schooling ahead of girls. In science the results are fairly even.
But in reading, where girls have been ahead for some time, a gulf has appeared. In all 64 countries and economies in the study, girls outperform boys. The average gap is equivalent to an extra year of schooling.
Figure 1: : Gender differences (boys – girls) in student performance in reading, mathematics and science in PISA 2012
Source: OECD family database.
The reverse gender tertiary education gap for ages 25–34, Anglo-Saxon countries
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Figure 1: % population who have attained at least tertiary education, age 25 – 34 by gender (2012)
Source: OECD family database.
Figure 2 shows that the stark reversing of the gender gap in educational attainment shown in figure 1 was somewhat more recent in the US, UK and to a lesser extent in Ireland and Australia. In the UK and USA, educational attainment by gender was pretty equal for the earlier generation of graduates as compared to today’s 25 to 34-year-olds. The reversing of the gender gap in educational attainment dates back several decades in Canada and New Zealand.
Figure 2: % population who have attained at least tertiary education, age 45 – 54 by gender (2012)
Source: OECD family database.
Another rather stunning illustration of the size of the graduate premium in the USA
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The average length of Ph.D. dissertations
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Subject by subject: How long is the average dissertation?
(Source: bit.ly/1And9nk) http://t.co/Zxydm8i86r—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 08, 2015
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