In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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Pope Francis has a master’s degree in Chemistry.
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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