Number who have said, “You teach a [Child|child] to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test”
: 1Number of [Austria|Austrian] [Fascism|skinheads] who have attended [College|college] [Education|classes] this year as an alternative to [Crime|criminal] prosecution
: 33Amount the head researchers invested in [Russia|Russian] securities during this period, prompting a federal lawsuit
: $1,300,000Amount the [FederalGovernment|federal government] paid [Harvard|Harvard] researchers in the [1990s|1990s] to help design [Russia|Russian] [Economics|market reforms]
: $40,000,000Percentage of ninth-grade [Girl|girls] who say this
: 36Percentage of U.S. [Education|ninth-grade boys] who say we should stop “outsiders” from influencing American traditions and cultures
: 53Chance that a [Education|sixth- to tenth-grader] reports bullying others
: 1 in 12Chance that a U.S. [Education|sixth- to tenth-grader] reports being bullied weekly
: 1 in 11Chance that a [Denver|Denver] [Education|middle-school] [Student|student] was suspended at least once during the [1990s|1999]-2000 school year
: 1 in 4Number of U.S. [College|college] [Student|students] who were denied federal financial aid last year because of a prior [Drugs|drug] conviction
: 9,605[Hours|Hours] that [Amherst|Amherst] College agreed to ban [Coffee|coffee] last term as part of a [Student|student’s] [Entertainment|performance] piece about the [Drugs|drug] war
: 24Endowment a [Tobacco|tobacco] company gave a U.K. [College|university] last year for a “corporate social responsibility” center
: ?3,800,000Minimum number of [Animal|baboons] forced to smoke [Drugs|crack] in a [1980s|1989] study testing the efficacy of [Vice|cigarettes] as a drug delivery device
: 3Estimated number of sign-language signs in the vocabulary of Koko, a [SanFrancisco|San Francisco] [Gorilla|gorilla]
: 1,000Number in which foreign-language classes are required
: 9Ratio of the average time it takes a [Men|male] [Animal|cardinal] to learn a song to the time it takes a [Women|female]
: 3:1Number of [USPresident|U.S. presidents] who have held a [Education|Ph.D.]
: 1Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in U.S. [Business|sales] of hardcover [Literature|books] for adults and [Child|children], respectively
: ???12, +13Number of U.S. [Education|schools] that use E-rater, a [Technology|software] program that reads and grades [Student|student] essays
: 95Number of these [Education|schools] that are [College|colleges] or universities
: 9Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in the number of U.S. [PublicSchools|public schools] that are run by private companies
: +111Percentage of U.S. [Jobs|employers] who say that a [Education|high-school] graduate “has at least learned the basics”
: 39Percentage of middle- and high-school [Student|students] who say this
: 77Ratio of the number of pupils per teacher in [Michigan|Michigan’s] [Education|schools] to the number of inmates per guard in its [Prison|prisons]
: 18:5Ratio of juveniles to [Policing|police-officer]”instructors” at a [Florida|Florida] sheriff’s 22-hour weekend boot camp
: 5:1Number of American states that permit [Education|public-school] teachers to inflict corporal punishment on [Student|students]
: 23Number of U.S. states in which [Biology|biology] [Education|classes] are a high-school graduation requirement
: 8Number of times the [GeorgeWBush|President] has met with Miss America this year to discuss her interest in “character [Education|education]”
: 2Minimum number of U.S. [Education|high schools] whose [Student|students] chose a custodian as a graduation speaker last [Spring|spring]
: 2Prize awarded an [Indiana|Indiana] University senior in [April|April] in a national “messiest college [Housing|apartment]” contest
: $10,000Amount the Cedar Rapids, [Iowa|Iowa], [Policing|police] began offering [Education|high-school] [Student|students] this year to inform on their classmates
: $50Maximum fine in 1829 for teaching an [AfricanAmerican|African American] living in [Georgia|Georgia] to read or write
: $500Percentage of [AfricanAmerican|African-American] [Child|children] in the South attending majority-[Caucasian|white] [Education|schools] in [1970s|1976] and [1990s|1996], respectively
: 38, 35Chance that a [Child|ten-year-old] is
: 1 in 7Chance that an [SeniorCitizen|eighty-year-old] American is [SupernaturalBeing|left-handed]
: 1 in 100Percentage of Men’s Health readers who say they have learned most of what they know about [Sex|sex] from [Television|television]
: 18Estimated number of times an adult must taste a disliked [Food|food] before learning to like it
: 10Price of Bob Dylan’s [Education|high-school] essay on The Grapes of Wrath, from a [NewYorkCity|New York City] collectibles dealer
: $35,000Number of these countries whose foreign [Finance|debt] exceeds half their [GDP|GDP]
: 8Minimum number of countries in which at least half the [Child|children] are no longer in [Education|school] by the age of eleven
: 11