Four years of schooling with two summers of internship.
All 50 states allow parent-conducted home schooling, with varying degrees of regulation.
The challenge is to combine first-class schooling with affordability and access.
About 65% of blacks and Hispanics leave secondary schooling with a diploma.
Booth supplemented her regular schooling with voracious reading and study of languages.
These kids associate schooling with being shouted at and told they are useless.
"When a child comes home from school, they have a teacher at home to go over their schooling with them.
Even if she hadn't published an essay, "The Mercies", about her schooling with the Sisters of Mercy, you might guess that Patchett had been raised by nuns.
At the other end of the educational scale, Hindus and Muslims have the fewest years of formal schooling, with an average of 5.6 years.
Australian students' scientific literacy has declined by 17 points since 2006, equivalent to seven months of schooling, with nine points of the decline in the last three years.
Performance in reading literacy fell 25 points since 2000, or 10 months of schooling, with nine points of the decline in the last three years.
