This means that more than two in five children who start school will not reach the last grade of primary education.
According to the Digest, 88% of children reached the last grade of this level of education in 2009, compared to 81% in 1999.
Deep gender disparities mean that fewer than 400 girls make it to the last grade of secondary school, while just 8% of women are literate.
Racing against her own sex, she won five stakes races, including the Grade 1 Acorn at Belmont Park on June 4, 1999 his last Grade 1 victory, according to Schwartz.
Dropout rates are highest in Chad (72%), Uganda (68%) and Angola (68%), where more than two out of three children starting primary school are expected to leave before reaching the last grade.
Yet a child in the last grade of primary only has at best a 75% chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries around the world, the overwhelming majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
In a major and welcomed development, Russia announced that it will close its last weapons-grade plutonium production reactor.
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Only 41% of Scottish beaches tested last summer made the grade - 45 out of 110.
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Globally, leveraged loans had prices 21 points higher than the average in the first half of last year, and investment-grade borrowers paid 12 points more than they would have last year, according to Dealogic.
They conspicuously failed to predict the sudden collapses at Enron and WorldCom, which were rated investment-grade until the last minute.
In the U.S., leveraged loans were priced 36 points higher than last year, and investment-grade loans cost six points more.
On the very last night before seventh or eighth grade, I was still scrambling to get through Tuck Everlasting.
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It was awarded Grade II listed status last year while its grounds were put on the Historic Parks and Grounds register.
Thus, in Madagascar, Rwanda, Chad and Togo, there are at least 20 more pupils on average in the first grade than in the last.
"I'm in a car running from the tornado, " said Amy Sharp, who last week pulled her fourth-grade daughter from the Plaza Towers Elementary School as a storm approached with 210 mph winds.
This comes after numerous complaints that some agencies and businesses have been offering low grade apprenticeships that only last for a few weeks or even months, in exchange for cheap labour and government funding.
The last time Ford was rated as investment grade by all three agencies was in May 2005.
This isn't the only surprise in store for readers who may have last encountered Fulton's name in grade school.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said it was reassuring that the proportion of papers given a new grade was the same as last year.
Turkey received an investment-grade credit rating from Fitch Ratings last November for the first time since 1994.
Last year, Emma's third-grade class performed on stage a well-known Chinese classic featuring a monkey with magical powers.
Charlie Sheen (who ranked 28th last year) also failed to make the grade.
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The house in Forthlin Road, where McCartney lived from the age of 13 to 22, was listed as a Grade II building by English Heritage last year.
Last month, she approved a third-grade textbook for Arab Israelis that teaches children that Arabs view the 1948 War of Independence, in which the infant state warded off the invading armies of five Arab states determined to annihilate its Jewish population, as "the nakba, " or catastrophe.
But at 0.21%, up from 0.08% last January, it remains easily in investment-grade range.
It issued its most recent AGR score for Caterpillar last December and gave the company a 6% grade as in, worse than 94% of companies.
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Emerging market and investment grade bonds have sold off in the last few days, and the dollar high-yield index has plateaued, but European high-yield has remained on course, edging higher.
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In this space last week, we reported that a sixth-grade class dubbed the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), is supposed to begin teaching students in September inside a New York public school.
Taiwan has gotten riskier, too, at 0.21%, up from 0.08% last January, but it remains easily in investment-grade range.
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