Percent of students who consider kickball the best recess game: 59
Percent of adults who favor mandatory, annual student testing to assess the quality of public schools: 71
Percent of school-age children who are unsupervised after school: 26
Percent reduction in the risk of illicit drug use among children who attended preschool and after-school programs: 50
Number of students who took courses during the 2008-09 school year through the Florida Virtual School, the country’s oldest state-wide, Internet-based, public high school: More than 71,000
Number of courses the Florida Virtual School offers, including Chinese, macroeconomics and advanced-placement art history: More than 100
Percent of American adults who do not believe children should have to learn a foreign language to graduate from high school: 47
Percent of European students required to learn a second language, usually English: Nearly 100
Percent of students in Luxembourg who learn three or more languages: 62
Percent drop in suspensions at schools in Hawaii that adopted a program promoting positive thinking: 70
Minutes per day teachers at participating schools spent teaching positive behavior: 15 to 20
Age of Californian Jordan Romero when he became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mt. Everest in May 2010: 14
Age when Cecilia Cassini, also of California, started selling her own line of designer clothes, often seen on celebs, including Miley Cyrus: 11
Sources: Scholastic.com, CBS News Poll, AfterschoolAlliance.org, FLVS.net, Eurostat, District Administration, People Weekly
