Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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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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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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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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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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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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