Stats That Stick: March 16, 2011

In Singapore, the attrition rate of teachers is less than 3 percent annually, which is less than half the annual attrition rate for teachers in the United States. –Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)

In raw numbers, the United States produces many more low-achieving students than any other OECD nation, including even two developing economies, Mexico and Turkey. –Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Seventy percent of all high schools offered classes or seminars to students to help explain the college application process, although about one-third did not. –College Board Advocacy & Policy Center