From ckilian@TheHub.capcollege.bc.ca Tue Nov 26 21:43:08 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.137]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with SMTP id gAR5h8rw019516 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:43:08 -0800 Received: FROM mxu5.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Nov 26 21:43:07 2002 -0800 Received: from thehub.capcollege.bc.ca (rtr-22.CapCollege.BC.CA [134.87.22.1]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with ESMTP id gAR5h7WH013509 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:43:07 -0800 Message-id: Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:42:56 -0800 Subject: Education Gaps To: pophealth@u.washington.edu From: "Crawford Kilian" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Tuesday Globe and Mail ran a story on a new UNICEF study of education success in the 24 OECD countries. A news release and the full report are available as PDF files at http://www.unicef-icdc.org/presscentre/newsroom/ The news release points out that countries allow gaps to form between their average and low-achieving students. In some countries, including Canada, the gap is relatively narrow; in others, like the US, the gap is quite wide. (This is not always a good thing, however; the gap is narrow in Portugal, but Portugal comes dead last in overall achievement.) Canada comes in 4th overall, led by South Korea, Japan, and Finland. The US is in 18th place. Crawford Kilian Capilano College North Vancouver BC http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/dept/cmns/crofpers.html .