Another major contributor was mother's education which contributed about 13 and 11 % for primary and above secondary attainments, respectively (Table 3).
In particular, the data show significant increases in preschool enrollment and post-secondary attainment.
But as community support structures have withered away, our kids increasingly come to school without the life tools that, it turns out, are essential to high school graduation, post-secondary attainment and a successful career.
But, after years of traveling to various cities hard at work on raising the post-secondary attainment levels in their community and region, I could now do so with confidence -- having seen first-hand why the prize was integral to not only accelerating their work but also their ultimate success in building sustainable and meaningful cross-sector collaborations around college success.
We have a lot of statistics in our heads about why college is worth it and I'm about ready to just say to folks, "If it's not worth it, why are we still talking about it, and why are thousands of parents packing their kids off to college as I'm writing this?" Issues of access and affordability to and for post-secondary attainment are as old as the idea of higher education.
And while northern primary schools perform well, secondary school attainment is a major cause for concern, particularly because of widening educational inequalities between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers.
Low educational level: this subsample refers to individuals with, at most, lower secondary school attainment levels.
The map and table below show how secondary school attainment varies between England's mainstream local authorities.
Social disparity with regard to lower and upper secondary educational attainment can be explained to some extent within a structural individualistic theoretical framework (Boudon 1974; Becker 2003; Stocké 2010; Kroneberg and Kalter 2012).
In regards to upper secondary educational attainment, we expect the following: The more extensive the regional opportunity structures are, the higher the probability that pupils opt for general education programs (hypothesis 2).
Girls are now surpassing boys in average secondary school attainment.
