The TED Talk
industrialization and Universal education
Education in the Most industrialized Nations
Education in Industrializing Nations
Education in the Least Industrialized Nations
100
Which country has the best education model?
Finland
100
What degree is now twice as common as completing high school used to be?
A Bachelor's Degree
100
What schools operates after regular school days in Japan?
Juku schools
100
Photographs of which two leaders were mandatory in Russian classrooms?
Lenin and Stalin
100
How much do many people live on yearly in non-industrialized nations?
$1000
200
In South American countries, Brazil being the mentioned one, once children drop out of school what is the common trade
Drug trade
200
In which year did all U.S. states create mandatory education laws?
1918
200
How much does it cost to attend a Juku or cram school annually?
$3000
200
Under the control of which historic group was all education free including college?
The Soviets
200
Renowned Egyptian education has produced which two acclaimed scientist?
Archimedes and Euclid
300
Who own the first laptop to appear in Brazil?
Rodigo Baggio
300
What do the mandatory education laws of the U.S. make mandatory?
Children must attend school
300
Before the birth rate in Japan dropped who could attend college?
Only the top scorers
300
Name two of the three types of schools that began to run in Russia when Russia switched from communism to capitalism?
Any two of: Private/Religious/Foreign Run
300
How many years of free education does the Egyptian Constitution promise children?
6 years
400
What is the name of the largest slum in East Africa?
Kibera
400
What were the founders of the New Republic concerned would make the "nation unstable"?
Contrasting religious and ethnic groups
400
Instead of taking a the S.A.T. like in the United States what test do student wanting to attend college in Japan take?
National Test
400
During the drastic switch what was one way one school in Russia paid their teachers due to a dwindling economy?
Toilet Tissue and Vodka
400
What portion of Egyptians are illiterate?
1/3 to 1/2
500
What is the technology that "spans rich and poor" in places such as slums?
A cell phone
500
"To help create a uniform national culture", which two men "proposed universal schooling"?
Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster
500
What is the term sociologist use to describe the privileges and cultural experiences that lead to higher test scores?
Cultural Capital
500
Now being paid regularly how what is the monthly income for professors in Russia?
$1000
500
By what age do most students in Egypt drop out of school?
Age 14