Cribsheet: Education
Education. Private school in NYC, K-5: $161,590.
by Sarah Sundberg
March 22, 2007
Cost of private School in NYC (Little Red School House) kindergarten through fifth grade: $161,590
Cost of private School in Ohio (The Cincinnati Country Day School) kindergarten through fifth grade: $89,730
Stylish backpack: $24
Lunchbox: $12.95
Pencil case (including four pencils): $5.95
Six years' worth of NYC public school lunches at $1.50 a pop: $1170
4 years of violin classes, including a rented violin: $1472
4 years of kids' martial arts classes: $1820
4 years of kids' yoga classes: $2880
4 years of kids' dance classes: $4760
Proportion of children with some letter recognition skills in the spring semester of their kindergarten year: 95%
Proportion of children who could understand words read in context at the start of first grade: 48%
According to the National Assessment of Educational Programs 2000 assessment of fourth-graders' reading ability:
The proportion of fourth-graders with reading skills below the basic level was: 37%
The proportion of fourth-graders with reading skills at the advanced level was: 8%
Proportion of students who read every day for fun: 43%
Proportion of students who hardly ever read for fun: 14%
Proportion of students who have two or fewer types of reading materials at home: 32%
Proportion of students with four or more types of reading materials at home: 34%
Literacy rank of the US among 17 high-income countries: 10
©2007 Nerve Media
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Sarah Sundberg
lives in Brooklyn, where she bikes and explores abandoned buildings. Before that, she lived in Stockholm, Sweden, where she wrote about clubs and music. She has written for Nerve, Surface and indieWIRE. |
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