The Best and The Brightest?
A little food for thought on a Monday morning:
According to this site at U.S. News and World report, the Top 50 national universities have a total enrollment - graduate and undergrad - of a little more than one million students. I'll take a ballpark guess that 2/3 of those are undergrads. Assume a somewhat even distribution over four years (yeah, because they all graduate on time... hee, hee); let's say it's roughly 150,000 graduates a year.
Now let's consider some information from the National Center for Education Information (p. viii):
According to this site at U.S. News and World report, the Top 50 national universities have a total enrollment - graduate and undergrad - of a little more than one million students. I'll take a ballpark guess that 2/3 of those are undergrads. Assume a somewhat even distribution over four years (yeah, because they all graduate on time... hee, hee); let's say it's roughly 150,000 graduates a year.
Now let's consider some information from the National Center for Education Information (p. viii):
There are 3.2 million public school teachers educating the nation’s 49.4 million children attending public PK-12 schools, according to the U.S. Department’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
NCES Schools and Staffing Surveys also show that, in 2007-08 (the latest year for which these data are