Sir Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? Still the best TED talk ever.
7,000 … students drop out of high school every school day, for a total of about 1.3 million students a year.
12% … of U.S. public high schools (about 2,000 schools) produce nearly half of the nation’s dropouts and 58% of African-American dropouts.
50% … of incoming ninth graders in urban, high-poverty schools read three or more years below grade level.
39% … of high school students reported spending one hour or less a week reading or studying for class in 2009.
23% …of new American teachers come from the top third of their graduating class.
14% … of new American teachers in high-poverty schools come from the top third of their college class.
100% … of teachers in Singapore, South Korea and Finland come from the top third of their college class.
Sources: Alliance for Excellent Education, High School Survey of Student Engagement, McKinsey & Co.
(Source: wearethedigitalkids)
