The Fall of an Empire, Part Six?

EDUCATIONAL WELL-BEING

Components ranked by the gap between

the child at the 10^th percentile and the child

at the 50^th percentile (as a percent of  the 50^th

percentile) with 1 being the smallest gap

                                                                TOTAL     MATH        SCIENCE

                                                                RANK    LITERACY  LITERACY

DENMARK

FINLAND

NETHERLANDS

SWITZERLAND

ICELAND

IRELAND

NORWAY

SWEDEN

AUSTRIA

CANADA

FRANCE

GERMANY

POLAND

PORTUGAL

BELGIUM

BRITAIN

CZECH REPUBLIC

HUNGARY

LUXEMBOURG

SLOVAKIA

SPAIN

GREECE

ITALY

UNITED STATES

4	3	10
1	1	1
8	6	13
12	14	17
10	7	15
2	2	5
11	11	12
7	9	6
22	23	18
3	4	4
23	21	23
20	18	19
5	5	3
14	17	9
24	24	22
13	8	21
17	22	11
6	10	2
16	16	20
15	15	8
9	12	7
18	19	14
21	20	16
19	13	24

                                                                         HOW CAN THIS BE?

  

 Source: “The Children Left Behind”, UNICEF