Quiz: Education by the numbers
Students work on homework in the common area at The Davidson Academy of Nevada for profoundly gifted students April 26 in Reno. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor)
Dropout rates, reading proficiency, average salaries for high school graduates, school-funding relative to other nations: Take our back-to-school quiz and see how you fare in your knowledge of how America educates its children.
Question 1 of 10
Source: Department of Education
1. According to the Department of Education, what percentage of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) did the United States spend on education in 2009?
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0.5% |
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7.9% |
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10% |
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14% |
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