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Among private school teachers under age 30, about 12 percent moved to another school and 20 percent left teaching during the 2004-05 school year.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, a federal entity for collecting, analyzing and reporting data related to education in the United States and other nations
BUSINESS DEGREES POPULAR IN COLLEGE
Of the 1,400,000 bachelor's degrees conferred in 2003-04, the most were conferred in the fields of business (307,000), social sciences and history (150,000), and education (106,000).
At the master's degree level, the largest fields were education (162,000) and business (139,000).
The largest fields at the doctorate level were education (7,100), engineering (5,900), biological and biomedical sciences (5,200), psychology (4,800), and health professions and related clinical sciences (4,400).
Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics
SCHOOL KIDS DOING BETTER IN U.S. HISTORY
America's 12th-, eighth- and fourth-graders know more U.S. history now than in recent years, according to the 2006 assessment. Similar assessments of a nationally representative sample of 29,000 students were conducted in 1994 and 2001.
What students know about U.S. history, according to the 2006 survey:
FOURTH-GRADERS
EIGHTH-GRADERS
12TH-GRADERS
Source: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
ONLY 61% OF SENIORS CAN DO 'BASIC' MATH
In 2005, 61 percent of high school seniors performed at or above the "basic level" in mathematics, and 23 percent performed at or above "proficient." The results are from a representative sample of more than 21,000 high school seniors from 900 schools across the country assessed in mathematics.
You can see the results of the 2005 12th-grade mathematics assessment at nationsreportcard.gov/, the Nation's Report Card Web site.
