Back to School 2013

2013 Back to School! Top 5 College Majors $81,761 Average earnings of full-time, year round workers with an advgnced degree. Facts and Figures $8.5 billion: The amount of money spent at family clothing stores in August 2012. 1.5 million students are home schooled in America. The top reasons most - 79 million: The number of children and adults enrolled in school throughout the country in 2011 from nursery school to college. parents give for homeschooling is a desire to give their kids religious or moral instruction. $14,9154 Average tultion, room and board at a publid university $40,640: Average tultion, room and board at a private university $63,640: Average salary for a public school teacher in California A Did You Know? Pencils can write just about anywhere - in zero gravity, upside down, and underwater Roughly 480,000 school buses bring students to and from school every day Back to School sales are the second highest consumer spending period behind the winter holidays Blue was voted the favorite color out of 120 choices The smell of a crayon ranks #18 on the list of most recognizable scents In 1995, approximately 50% of American schools had Internet access. Today, that number is 100% ELITE VElite Research Sources: Census, Princeton Review, Chiff.com, RESEARCH Woodridge.patch.com, Greenblue.org @Elite_Research Education Biology Nursing Psychology Business