Girls are the first to suffer from this inequality, according to the Digest.
"What the Digest did was ignore everyone who didn't respond to sweepstakes, so I'm having a field day, " says Klingel.
According to the Digest, 88% of children reached the last grade of this level of education in 2009, compared to 81% in 1999.
As highlighted in the Digest, secondary education costs more than primary education mostly because of the need for teachers trained to provide subject-specific instruction.
In contrast, the families of students in North America and Western Europe provide just 7% of total spending on secondary education, according to the Digest.
Opportunities Lost: The Impact of Grade Repetition and Early School Leaving, the Digest presents a wide range of new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
In general, girls are less likely than boys to start school but boys are at greater risk of repeating grades and dropping out, according to the Digest.
The data in the Digest show that school systems are reaching more children but losing them due to inefficiencies, which lead to grade repetition and early school leaving.
The Digest, produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, presents a wide range of indicators on the extent to which girls and boys are enrolling and completing secondary education.
However, challenges remain at the upper secondary level, where there are enough school places for just 47% of girls and 49% of boys of upper secondary school age to enrol, according to the Digest.
Even more important, in my opinion, than the list of cases in the Digest is the 30-page analysis of recent cases and global enforcement trends that precedes the hundreds of pages of case descriptions.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in which the gender disparities against girls are getting worse at the upper secondary level, with 8 million boys enrolled compared to only 6 million girls, according to the Digest.
The Digest also highlights some potentially good news, namely that the global repetition rate has fallen by 7% between 2000 and 2010 even though there were more children in primary school, with enrolment rates rising by 6% during the same period.
Entitled Opportunities Lost: The Impact of Grade Repetition and Early School Leaving, the Digest presents a wide range of UIS data and indicators to better identify the millions of children that are falling through the cracks in education systems and leaving school, often without being able to read or write.
Quantitative easing (QE) was the catch phrase of the day on Tuesday as the markets digest both the Bank of Japan's new and possibly radical asset purchase program and rate reduction pair, and the prospect of further QE by the Fed.
The Screen Digest report also highlighted the growing trend of buying games from places other than physical shops, such as online.
This combination has allowed the HuffPo to digest the news that matters most to its readers at minimal cost, while it focuses resources in the highest-impact areas.
Historically, why and how were the Literary Digest poll of 1936 and the Gallup Poll of 1948 flawed?
Seldom, if ever, said the Literary Digest in 1920, have the victors in a great war left the punishment of the defeated leaders in the hands of their own people.
Now Shadley is in Tinseltown for a different kind of industry-related project: designing the Architectural Digest green room -- the backstage area where stars can relax while the show runs -- at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.
Special offer: The Hulbert Financial Digest ranks the Prudent Speculator No. 1 for performance over the past ten-, 15- and 20-year periods.
Sunday Times said the scale of the fundraising could lead to trading at the London Stock Exchange being suspended, giving the market time to digest the impact.
His Buyback Index is up 195% since its inception in March 1997, and The Hulbert Financial Digest rates the newsletter as the number one stock-picking letter over a five-year period.
June was expected to be a quiet time in New York auction houses, a time for the art world to digest the many record-breaking prices set at the May auctions.
Before the brain can fully digest the anguish and suffering of a story, it is being bombarded by the next news bulletin or the latest Twitter update, according to a University of Southern California study.
"The stock market will digest the move today and then probably take a breather, but in the short term I don't see it falling very far as there are no incentives for a sell-off, " said Hideyuki Ishiguro, senior investment strategist at Okasn Securities in Tokyo.
Here is a snapshot of Murphy's overall performance, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest: The stock picks found in Murphy's Technology Investing newsletter are down 37.1% for the first half of 2002, and the letter's overall record is an average annual return of -2.4% since Dec. 31, 1998.
The San Francisco-born and Minneapolis-bred Buckingham has continued the tradition established by his late mentor and maintains a diversified portfolio of value stocks for the fund and for the newsletter, and has achieved the best investment performance of all newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest for the past ten-, 15- and 20-year periods.
The most recent edition of The Hulbert Financial Digest reports that the six model portfolios in David Fried's Buyback Letter gained an average of 38% in 2003.
According to The Hulbert Financial Digest, The Prudent Speculator has returned, on average, 18% over the past 20 years, while the best performing 15-year newsletter, OTC Insight, logged 17% a year.
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