The Education Olympics

THE EDUCATION OLYMPICS The United States is first when it comes to winning olympic gold medals, but how do we rank when it comes to education? We thought we'd see how the 10 countries with the most gold medals compare in different areas of education to see who got the gold medals of education. MOST OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS GERMANY ITALY CHINA USA 929 247 AUSTRALIA 191 163 SWEDEN 131 JAPAN 123 GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE HUNGARY 142 207 191 159 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE GER JAP GBR FRA ITL HUN USA SWE AUS CHN 97% 93% 91% 85% 85% 78% 77% 71% 67% 40% AVERAGE CLASS SIZE SWE GBR ITL HUN USA AUS GER FRA JAP CHN 19 21 21 22 23 24 24 33 54 POPULATION WITH POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION JAP USA GBR AUS SWE FRA GER HUN ITL CHN 44% 41% 37% 37% 33% 29% 26% 20% 15% 5% STARTING TEACHER SALARIES GER USA AUS GBR SWE JAP ITL FRA (HUN CHN $44K $36K $33K $31K $28K $27K $26K $24K $12K NA HOURS PER YEAR REQUIRED IN CLASSROOM ITL FRA USA GBR AUS GER JAP HUN CHN SWE 1089 1048 997 950 937 896 875 763 748 741 GLOBAL MATHEMATICS RANKING CHN JAP AUS GER FRA SWE GBR HUN USA ITL 15 16 22 26 28 29 31 35 GLOBAL SCIENCE RANKING CHN JAP AUS GER GBR HUN USA FRA SWE ITL 1 5 10 13 16 22 23 27 29 35 EDUCATION OLYMPICS WINNERS GREAT BRITAIN JAPAN GERMANY surces: oecd.org| worldbank.org| mat.usc.edu Certification Map design by Francesca Greggs & Lemonwood Design Teacher certification made simple 0109 SILVER SILVER SILVER SILVER 3ZNOXO