Just 30% of male school-leavers applied to university for autumn 2012, compared to 40% of female school-leavers, according to Ucas.
The measure of a good education should be to assess how well students did in that school compared to how they would have been predicted to do if they had gone to other schools.
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Nationwide, women comprised 86 percent of elementary teachers in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the National Education Association, compared to 62 percent of secondary school teachers.
Mr Russell said schools would be able to work out how they might perform compared to "the ideal school in their circumstances".
Only about 37% of poor girls between the ages of 15 and 17 attend school compared to 90% of wealthy boys and 87% of wealthy girls.
Most countries in the region are investing at least 10 times the amount in each tertiary student compared to each pupil in primary school.
Pet owning children were found to have an extra nine days at school over the course of the year compared to those without animals.
More than 90% of private-school pupils can expect to get their matric, compared with just 30% of state-school pupils.
D. recipients who went to college earned a degree, compared to 65% of students who went on to college with a high school diploma.
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Nothing wrong with parents complaining if their school is doing badly compared to others within the same group.
American students are great at math compared to their international peers--in elementary school.
Compared to the holistic approach used by the law school, the undergraduate body automatically awarded a fixed number of extra points to underrepresented minorities.
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"The research says how important family is compared to institutions or mandating children to stay at school for an extra couple of years, " she said.
For example, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) major at MIT would yield a higher score and loan compared to a religious studies major at a lesser ranked school.
According to a New York Times report from findings from one consumer group, auto insurance rates were 68% lower for a married woman with a college degree, a professional job and who owned a home, when compared to a single woman, with a high-school diploma who rented her home in a moderate income area.
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Free school meals are a standard poverty indicator - used by the inspectorate, Ofsted, to judge how well one school is doing compared with others "in similar circumstances".
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That followed a story in the New York Times with the stunning assessment that back-to-school spending actually has unexpectedly slowed compared with a year ago, instead of surging ahead as many retailers had expected.
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The institute says sadly that only 1% of high-school students want to major in accountancy, compared with 4% in 1990.
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Compared with a school, a hospital is a complicated beast to measure.
Monday night's Taro Naw programme reveals widespread frustration and concern among teachers and educationalists, that Welsh primary and secondary school pupils are losing out financially and educationally compared to English pupils.
In a separate report in February, published in Child Trends, data show that regardless of economic status, ethnicity or education, the single mothers who were regularly offered emotional support had "children and adolescents who were also more likely to display social competence and school engagement, " compared with single mothers without social support.
Mr Lewis told assembly members there was a "fall off in activity" between primary and secondary school, and the problem was worse for girls compared to boys.
Kids who are exposed to music perform better in school: students in high-quality school music education programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of community.
Afterward, 64% with BAs were employed, compared to 57% of those with associate degrees and 47% of high school graduates.
The bar allows you to see at a glance how well this school did, compared with the worst and best in the country.
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Robichaux liked the fact that it was on higher ground, 8 feet above sea level, compared with 4 feet below sea level at the school he was supposed to run, KIPP Phillips.
But the slushy morning commute and widespread school delays as the storm moved eastward, were minor compared to the storm's impact on the Midwest, where it was blamed for separate crashes in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri on snow-slicked roads.
This compared with a rate of 65% among pupils who were not entitled to free school meals.
The council said it needed fewer schools because secondary school pupil numbers were projected to fall to 12, 500 in 2015, compared with 14, 500 in 2002.
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Clint Bolick, head of the Alliance for School Choice, one of the organizations supporting this suit, compared the old solution to a car company's selling a lemon to a buyer and being rewarded with more money.
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