The Incredible South Korean Education System

January 16, 2018

South Korea’s commitment to invest in education pays off

South Korea performance in education in the last four years has been masterful in execution. Their results in standardized testing and their student’s ability to advance towards college graduation is the model over 200 nations, are chasing to be the best in education.

In NJ MED’s 2017, World Top 20 Education Poll that ranks the world’s best education systems, South Korea’s captured, the number one spot for the fourth consecutive year. Even, with Japan closing the gap by seven points, it looks like South Korea will still be number one in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

{ South Korea Current Education System }

The only hope other nations can catch-up or even keep up, is by improving their early childhood education system. With enrollments, teaching quality, and parent involvement. With that, said, what if South Korea, also improves their early-childhood education system?

South Korea May Be the Best, But

Heavy is the crown who wears it.

With all the success South Korean students have achieved, some of the country’s children suffer from high rates of depression and mental fatigue. That lead to emotional breakdowns that lead to irrational thoughts that leads to suicide.

Most of the critics of the South Korean teaching method and objectives say they are pushing children and their parents too hard to passing standardized test, rather than teaching students to develop normally as adolescents.

This is something the South Korean government must take very seriously. However, they feel a discipline focus is part of their cultural pride, and something that has strengthened the nation, not weakened it.

We hope, they can come to a common ground to help to ensure every child develops in a healthy, safe, and nurturing environment.

2017 World Top 20 Education Poll Final Rankings

In 2017, four new countries joined the World Top 20 Education Final Rankings – Estonia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Italy. Replacing 2016 ranked countries – Germany, Sweden, France, and Hungary.

Hong Kong and Israel moved into the Top 10, and China went from ninth in 2016 to fifth in 2017. The United States fell from number seven in 2016 to sixteen, with Russia remaining as the only non-Asian country in the Top 5.

Here is the breakdown of the 2017 Top 20 World Ranked Education Systems:

Number 20: Italy makes their first Top 20 finish in the World Top 20 rankings. This year Italy’s education system ranked top 10 at two academic levels – Early Childhood Enrollment and High School graduation rates. Italy also ranked number 19^th in the third quarter poll.

Number 19: Taiwan also makes their first appearance in the World Top 20 Education Poll final rankings. Taiwan ranked top 20 in three educational levels – Secondary, High School and College. They ranked as high as number thirteen in the third quarter poll.

Number 18: New Zealand makes their third top 20 finish in the World Top 20 Poll. New Zealand’s education system ranked top 15 at two academic levels – Early Childhood Enrollment and High School graduation rates. They ranked has high as number 8 in the third quarter poll.

Number 17: Estonia’s education system makes their first top 20 finish in the World Top 20 Education Poll, since 2013. In 2017, Estonia finished top 15 in two education levels – Early Childhood Enrollment and High School graduation rates. Estonia ranked in all fourth quarters of this year’s rankings and finished at their projected position from 2017, first quarter poll.

Number 16: United States education system fell nine positions from last year’s top 10 finish. The US ranked top 15 in three education levels – Primary, Secondary, and College. After, finishing number one in the second quarter rankings in 2017, the US dropped out of the top 20 rankings in the third quarter and returned to finish four positions higher than their first quarter projected ranking.

Number 15: Norway ranked top 20 in three educational levels – Early Childhood Enrollments, Primary, and College Graduation Rates – in 2017. In the first quarter poll rankings, Norway projected to finish number 6 at the end of the year. Nevertheless, Norway’s education system makes their fourth appearances as one of the world’s 20 best-educated countries.

Number 14: Ireland education system finishes as one of the best in NJ MED’s World Top 20 Education Poll for the fifth time. Ireland rated in 3 top 20 education levels – Primary, Secondary and College Graduation Rates. Ireland making the 2017 final poll ranking, is somewhat shocking, after not being rated all year.

Number 13: Canada dropped one spot from its 2016 ranking. Making it two straight years, Canada has failed to make the top 10. However, Canada continues to do well in three educational levels – Primary, High School, and College.

Number 12: Slovenia moves up six places from it 2016 finish. Slovenia makes their third appearances in the World Top 20 Final Poll Rankings. Slovenia also ranked in the top 20 in four education levels – Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, and High School graduation rates –in 2017.

Number 11: The Netherlands education system finishes number eleven for the second straight year. The Netherlands ranked top 20 in all five levels of NJ MED’s education Poll – Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, High School and College. The Netherlands also was ranked in all four quarters of the poll and finished their projected 2017 first quarter ranked position number 11.

Number 10: Israel’s education system returned to the Top 10 in 2017. After, Israel ranked in four of the five of the World Top 20 Education Poll’s educational levels – Early Childhood, Secondary, High School, and College.

Number 9: Denmark’s education system ranked in the top 10 in all four quarters of the 2017 World Top 20 Poll. This makes Denmark’s fifth consecutive year in finishing in the top 20, and ranked top 20 in 4 education levels – Early Childhood, Primary, High School, and College.

Number 8: Finland’s education system in most people’s opinion is the world’s best. However, Finland never has been able to capture NJ MED’s World Top 20 Education Poll’s final number one spot. Finland’s education system from the outside looks strong, evident by NJ MED projected Finland to finish number one in 2017. Yet, Finland never ranked higher than number five in the year-end rankings. The 2017 final poll continues to show Finland’s early childhood education system does not rank internationally.

Number 7: Singapore’s strong standardized test scores for Primary and Secondary levels keeps them in the top half of the World Top 20 Education Poll. Yet, this is Singapore’s lowest finish in five years.

Number 6: United Kingdom’s education system ranked six for the second year in the row. The UK ranked top 10 in four education levels in 2017. Number one in Early Childhood enrollment, number nine in Primary and number ten in Secondary test score levels, and finished number 7 in college student’s graduation rates.

Number 5: China’s education system finished in the top five of the World Top 20 Education Poll, for the first time in 2017. China ranked top 20 in four education levels – Primary, Secondary, High School, and College.

Number 4: Hong Kong moved up 10 spots from last year’s ranking of the world’s best education systems. Hong Kong also finished top 20 in four of the World Top 20 Education Poll’s academic levels – Primary, Secondary, High School, and College.

Number 3: Russia was the only non-Asian nation to finish in the World Top 20 Poll’s top five. Russia also was one of only four countries (Netherlands, Japan, and South Korea) to finish top 20 in all five educational levels of the World Top 20 Education Poll – Early Childhood Enrollments, Primary and Secondary academic scores, and both High School and College graduation rates.

Number 2: Japan’s education system finished number two for the fourth year in a row, after finishing number one in NJ MED’s first World Top 20 Education Poll. Japan’s education system ranked in the top five in four levels – Primary, Secondary, High School and College, but only reached number 17 in Early Childhood education enrollment.

Number 1: South Korea is declared the best-educated country in 2017. Making it four years in a row. South Korea’s education system also ranked top fifth teen in all five-education levels of the World Top 20 Education Poll. With all the success, South Korea’s education system achieves, it still does not get the recognition it deserves. The fact, NJ MED projected South Korea would not finish number one in 2017, shows South Korea’s domination in education is real.

Expect A Big Shake-Up in 2018

In 2018, NJ MED will publish its first draft World Education Data Base of 265 nations. So, the nations who rank well in one of the five educational levels will push some of this year’s top 20 countries out.

The 2018 World Education Data Base will also allow everyone to see, where each country ranks in- Africa, Asia, the Oceania, Europe, North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean’s.

But for now, congratulations to South Korea, the best of the best.

Year in Review 2017

Human Rights Advocate

December 20, 2017

A Year in Review: the 5 Biggest Challenges the World Top 20 Project Faced in 2017

The World Top 20 Project’s mission is to ensure every child on the planet has an opportunity to reach their full potential, with access to quality education in a safe and nurturing environment.

Each year the World Top 20 Project reviews world events that put children at risk.

Below is a list of 20 events in 2017 that threaten our cause.

Number 5:

Human Sacrifice in South Sudan

What is War Good for? Nothing

The civil war in South Sudan has taken a heavy toll on children and teens. The war began in December 2013 after government troops — known as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army or SPLA.

No one knows how many South Sudanese people have been killed since the outbreak of the civil war.

“South Sudanese children suffer from…violence, displacement, lack of schooling, and forced recruitment by armed groups. Children have also at times been directly targeted by armed forces, often because of their ethnic group,” Jehanne Henry, a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Africa Division, told Teen Vogue.

Here is more information about why Sudanese children and their families have become victims:

Civil war and lack of food wreck children’s education in South Sudan

South Sudan’s civil war creates a new lost generation

Over 1 million refugees from South Sudan now in Uganda

Number 3:

The News Just Keeps Getting Worse from Nigeria

It was reported in 2017, Nigeria has the ‘largest number of children out-of-school’ in the world

Was the report true? The answer is NO. However, Nigeria does have over 8.0 million children out of school.

As the largest country in Africa, Nigeria’s investment in children education is an embarrassment to the continent. The country is a case study of a nation divided. Especially in northern Nigeria where the largest population of the Out-of-School children live. This diminishes their reputation around the world, and reveals their instability as a nation.

With so many of the country’s government and business leaders fail to understand. “No nation can achieve economic prosperity without a sound, inclusive and functional education system. The security and stability of the country, to a large extent, depends on its ability to provide functional education to its citizens,” said the country’s government,
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Adamu Hussaini.

You can find more information about Nigeria’s education system, below:

Does Nigeria have the world’s most girls out-of-school, as activist Malala claimed?

Boko Haram Leaves 3 Million Kids Out of School in N. Nigeria

Poor Investment in Education

Number 4:

Killing the Mind

Practicing Evil Ways

Millions of young students in low and middle-income countries face the prospect of lost opportunity and lower wages in later life because their primary and secondary schools are failing to educate them to succeed in life

About 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, signaling “a learning crisis” that could threaten progress on global development goals, according to UNESCO

Lack of a good education equals lack of a proper job, which results in too much free time for young adults that is often poorly utilized. And for children in undeveloped countries, they are more exposed to gang violence, theft, drug use and child exploitation. Which means, children and adults with a meaningful lack of education are more vulnerable to victimization.

Who benefits from this???

Below are links to more information, on the learning crisis from around the world:

More than half of children and youth worldwide ‘not learning’

World Bank warns of ‘global learning crisis’

World Development Report 2018

Number 2:

The Abuse of Power

Trust Miss Found

We’re here to HELP. To help defend those who cannot defend themselves. The International community formed a special group through the United Nations called UN Peacekeeping. The UN Peacekeeping operates in some of the toughest and most dangerous places in the world, going where others cannot or will not.

The UN’s Peacekeeping mission to protect human life around the world is a godsend. With men and women from over 130 nations serving as Peacekeepers to help countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. And helping prevent conflict, reducing violence and strengthening security in the field where it matters most.

Sometimes a good cause can go bad. And in Haiti it did. Where groups of Peacekeepers from Sri Lanka committed the vilest acts on a people and children. The only punishment they’ve received was to go home. If the UN and its nation members, don’t act on punishing this group of evildoers, it will threaten the credibility of the UN Peacekeepers forever.

More than 100 UN peacekeepers ran a child sex ring in Haiti. None were ever jailed

UN PEACEKEEPERS: HOW A HAITI CHILD SEX RING WAS WHITEWASHED

How traffickers exploit children in Haiti’s orphanages

Number 1:

Profit and Greed Over Life

Child Exploitation

Many of the world’s top company’s are using child labor to help increase profits for their stock value and shareholders pockets. You to maybe also helping to exploit children if you buy any products from these companies – Microsoft, Lenovo, Renault, Vodafone, Huawei, L&F, Tianjin B&M, BYD, Coslight, Shenzhan BAK, ZTE (See the complete list of other companies)

Over 150 million children are victims of cheap labor, and most work long hours for little pay or for no pay as slaves. Most people don’t care. If they don’t see it or know about it, what’s wrong with it.

Everything is wrong with it. Former child labor workers are more likely to have low-paying jobs as adults, which increases the world poverty rate. It also destroys the child. It erases what could have been to endlessness and hopelessness. So again, who cares?

Of course, companies deny, they support child labor. They say, We are helping create jobs in poor countries, through Global Partnerships. That helps raise families out of poverty. They strongly feel, if children are working in these countries. The local manufacturers are responsible for these senseless acts?

Whomever is to blame. Is something you have to decide. We’ve selected Child labor and the forces around it, as the greatest challenge the World Top 20 Project’s mission faced in 2017.

Learn more about child labor:

IS MY PHONE POWERED BY CHILD LABOUR?

Child Labour in the Fashion Industry

5 Companies That Still Use Slave Labor

15 Other Major Challenges Children and Countries Faced in 2017:

Rohingya children forced to work, beaten and sexually assaulted – IOM

The downsides to Singapore’s education system: streaming, stress and suicides

What’s Really Keeping Pakistan’s Children Out of School?

Male rape and sexual torture in the Syrian war: ‘It is everywhere’

Child sex abuse live streams rising at ‘alarming rate’ amid surge in ‘cybersex trafficking’

HOW POLITICAL CORRUPTION FUELS GANG VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AMERICA

Heavy fighting forces thousands of Ukrainian children out of school

We need compulsory sex education in primary schools to tackle child-on-child abuse

More children in Japan victimized by sexually explicit selfies

TEACHERS VICTIMS OF WORKPLACE TERROR

School Violence in Morocco and the Need for a True Reform

Africa’s future depends on education

Maria’s smallest victims: In Puerto Rico, children’s mental health a growing concern

High Schools Are Dealing With Repeated Acts Of Racism And Students Are Concerned

For The Venezuelan Opposition, Protests Are ‘Like A War’

Solution: 4 Billion Ways to Save Our Children

Human Rights Advocate

November 20, 2017

Every parent wants the same thing… God. Please protect my child.

There is no guarantee; every child born will have an opportunity to reach its full potential. Why?

Because the WORLD does not work like that.

Some of us may have a better opportunity than others. To see our children become successful.

Because of where we live, how much money we make, and the support system we have.

However, that is no guarantee; our children will grow up healthy, happy, and self-confident. So many things can happen to prevent our children from becoming successful.

Drugs, alcohol, bullying, sex-abuse, gun violence, and wars.

What Can We Do to Lower the Odds?

The challenges of raising our children in a safe and nurturing environment is becoming harder, day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year.

It seems there is a force out there, whose only mission is to take our children from us. We need to find solutions.

If you have been following us (NJ MED) for over the last 5 years, you know. We deeply believe education is the hope we need, to help cure the world’s problems, and save our children.

We’ve seen how it can change lives, and make our children strong. Successful and turn the odds in our favor against poverty, violence, and hopelessness.

So we are asking, everyone, everywhere to trust us, and believe in one another. Because, without that, our mission to save our children and Educate Every Child on the Planet is nothing without you.

How do We Do It?

To educate every child on the planet, you need access. You have to see them, hear them, and be able to give them the tools they need to become successful.

It’s estimated that there are over 210 countries in the world. Small ones, large ones, those with access to lights, those without, those with roads to those without.

Given those facts. It will be easier to work with those countries that we have easy access too.

We can work with them to address social issues and encourage them towards higher education (something we have already begun – Global rankings of Educational Systems and Universities).

However, gaining access to nations that lack resources or provide human rights to children and their families is not as easy. Because we have to address both social and academic needs. Therefore, making it the most challenging, to get access to and to develop a support system.

Working Together towards a Common Goal

The United Nations and every major international organization have been working to save our children and our planet’s future, since 2000. With two major initiatives – The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

NJ MED joined these initiatives in 2012, and are committed to using all of its resources, to help them accomplish their goals (especially Goal number 4 – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all).

One of our major resources is our staff relationship with World Football.

FIFA, the world’s governing body of football, has 209 member nations. Since 2005, they have joined the international effort to address development in economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Their flagship initiative – Football for Hope – focuses on working with children in education and health. The same common goal, our project (World Top 20 Project) and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Initiative wants to achieve.

With the support of the SDGs members, FIFA members, and universities around the world, we can accomplish the goal to save our children.

Knowing is Half the Battle

Knowing there is a problem and wanting to do something about it. Is just a start.

So where do we start? Where the biggest problem is.

Knowing there are over 260 million children out of school. And nearly one billion adults illiterate, unemployed and live in poverty because of a lack of education. Means, we have to go where the biggest challenges are – Africa and Asia.

How do we do that?

We have to get access to information
We have to update the information
We have to identify problem areas
We have to develop a way to provide resources to address their problem areas
We have to create funding sources to make the effort sustainable.

So, we have to work together to win the war to Save (ALL) Our Children?

IF You have Nothing Better to Do, Why NOT?

Let’s begin with the first step: get access to information. Currently, over half of African and Asian countries database on education is out of date by 4 to 6 years or does not even exist!

So, we have to build a temporary database profile for each country. We need real information from international and national organizations that track population’s sizes and to gather data on each country’s economic and social condition.

We can get this information from our United Nations ECOSOC partners and two Higher Education Initiatives – Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) and Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development (HESD).

Once, we establish a communication system to gather data. We need to update the information, by hiring an outsource group to collect information on each country’s education system, and have that information confirmed from three reliable sources.

To complete, the update information process, we will use another outsource group to collect additional educational information, that must also be confirmed by three reliable sources, to establish a real-time educational database of each country.

Let’s Get to Work

After, the education database is created for each country. We need to assess and develop their social and economic profile. That will outline each nation’s strength and weakness in their educational development of their children.

Which will give us a clear idea of the challenges and problem areas in each country’s education system.

From, the lack of early childhood education investment. To the safety, children face in going to school in unstable governments. To countries recovering from natural disasters. We have to know what is and has happened, to better prepare us for the worst.

Our organization, NJ MED, with international education experts, local media outlets, and regional NGOs partners of the SDGs Initiative will help conduct the assessment process.

With this information, we can organize and plan to develop a way to provide resources to address problem areas in each country. From early childhood to post-secondary education.

Counting the Cost

Billions of dollars have been or have been promised, to accomplish the 17 Goals of the Sustainable Development Goals by the year 2030.

We are not counting on that money to fight our battles. We need to develop a system that will invest, monitor, and stimulate growth within each country, city, and village. That is the only way this will work.

It will take time, but, time will work in our favor.

With 4 Billion World Football supporters and more than 3 Billion Internet users, we have a great chance to make history. And Save Our Children.

By the year 2023, you will see and feel the progress that we’ve made. “So Stay Tuned”.

October is College Application Month

Human Rights Advocate

October 12, 2017

College is not for everybody. But, everybody should go.

If college is not for you. You better learn how to do something better than someone else.

I’m not saying if you choose not to go to college. You will not make it in the 21^st century.

That would be me lying to you.

What I am trying to share with you. Is college helps you better understand how the world works. It also gives you an opportunity to make a better life for yourself, and to try to reach your full potential.

If that makes sense to you. Let’s discuss college.

Planning is Everything, So Let’s Get to It

October is the month, most 4- year colleges start accepting applications for their next year’s fall class.

So, if you want the best results to get into college. The sooner you start the process, the easier, it will be.

Let’s start with the process. You need to plan and completing tasks, step-by-step.

So where do you begin?

Answer this question.

Are You Ready For College?

It’s a simple question. Are you ready for college?

Let’s check:

Do you meet the admission requirements for college
Have you taken the SAT or ACT test
How many people say, you have the skills for college (You need Reference letters)
Can you explain why you want to go to college (You need to write a College Essay)
Do you, or your parents know how to pay for college (You need Money)

It’s a simple question. Are you ready for college?

Your Answer Should Be YES

College is a privilege. It is an opportunity to go where you want to go. To gain the knowledge you need for a life you dream of.

Nevertheless, everyone knows dreams sometimes do not come true.

To give you a better chance of getting to college, and reach your dreams, goals, and aspirations. You need to stop reading this article and go to this link

After you have completed each step, come back to this article

NJ MED Cares

If you get anything from our World Top 20 Project, you will see we want everyone to reach his or her full potential. This is our purpose and our drive, to make a difference in your life.

If college is where you want to go. We have also tried our best to get the information you need to help you become successful, in a Higher Education environment in the 21^st century:

In our Higher Education section of our website. We provide you with a list of:

The world’s top colleges;
How they work;
Everyday life on a college campus and graduate school opportunities
How to Become a Global Citizen

Here is a brief sample of each section.

World’s Top 20 Colleges

Our Annual Global Universities Rankings – list the world’s top 20 colleges by measuring the quality of education and training they offer to students 18 to 25 year olds, as well as, how impactful the university’s economic and social efforts have been in promoting their country’s sustainable development.

How Do You Get Into One of these Universities?

Our College Review page gives you a profile of each college:

Major Courses they promote
Student Population
Admission Requirements
Tuition Cost
Scholarships & Grants Opportunities
Graduation Rates
Their Graduates Employment Rate

What’s Happening on the World’s Top College Campuses?

Going away from home is a big step into adulthood. So, where you go, should be the best place for you.

If possible, our World College Information Center will give you some information on what is happening on top college campuses from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, the Oceania, North America and South America, and the things you can do, went you get there.

Plus, information about the World’s Top 20 Wealthiest Universities and Top Graduate Schools.

Be more than a College Student

Attending college is not completely about academics, and getting away from home. Instead, the college experience should also help you build a better view of the world around you.

Our Higher Education Engagement page will provide you with a list of colleges from around the world committed to helping students excel both academically as well as socially. By offering students, volunteer programs, internships, green initiatives and developing research projects towards community sustainability.

Remember a college is a place where you grow and accept new challenges.

Now, are You Ready for College?

If you have not already visited our Lifelong Learning Opportunities section. Which gives you a list of steps, you have to complete, before, you can send out your college application. You really need to.

In this section, it will show you and your parents how to prepare for meeting college admission requirements.

From organizing your high school transcript, passing college entrance test (SAT and ACT), getting the right college reference letters you need, and finding the funding opportunities you may be eligible for.

With this information, it will help bring you closer to successfully completing your college applications, and help guarantee your future.

Where should you begin?

Now that you have the information for meeting college admission, it is time for you to be proactive.

For:

High School Seniors you need to make sure you complete all college admission requirements. Meet with your high school guidance counselor to help prepare the information for your college application.

You also need to talk with your parents about college tuition. In addition, to getting their information for completing your financial aide applications; submitting for student loan programs; and meeting grants and foundation requirements.

High School Juniors planning for college next year. You need to meet with your high school guidance counselor to review your high school transcript. Start looking for colleges you would like to attend, based on your career goals.

Retake or take your college entrance test (SAT or ACT). Look for college Scholarships and Grants.

High School Sophomores planning for college you need to build your high school transcripts. Get extra help in tutoring programs for preparing for college entrance test (SAT or ACT).

You should also start participating in extra high school curriculum activities.

High School Freshman you need to start now, planning on – What do you want to be? Why are you going to high school? And, what will you be doing the next four years before you become an adult?

College maybe the next step, if you want to be all you can be. An extra four-year or two years of education will help you not hurt you.

So, you need, to take the right high school courses. Meet with your high school guidance counselor, find out where you can get help in subjects, you need help in. And finally, develop a mindset you need high school to help you get where you want to go in life.

Thanks but No Thanks: I Don’t Think College is for Me

After, all the information, we have prepared to help you successfully enroll in college. College still might not be for you.

More schooling Nah.

You are ready to get a job, get your own apartment, buy a car or start your own family. That’s Ok.

However, more education will help you develop more socially and increase your opportunity to earn higher wages, to support you or a family.

If that sounds good to you. What are you waiting for, send out those college applications.

2017 World Best Education Systems – 1st Quarter Report

Human Rights Advocate

May 5, 2017

The World Top 20 Education Poll and How it Affects You

UPDATE: The World Top 20 Education Poll 2017 Final Poll Results

I see you: The all seeing eye of the World Top 20 Education Poll

NJ MED published its first Annual Education Poll in 2013, to rank 209 nations education systems. The poll’s purpose is to gather information on how countries are preparing their youths for the 21^st century global knowledge base economy.

With this information, it would be very easy to see which countries are committed to making the world a better place. And more importantly, to safeguard the lives of every person living.

Unfortunately, over half of the countries on the planet, do not have educational data available. Most of the information on education, they do have is two to three years old, or even worse five to ten years old.

If it does not exist, No One will Know the Truth

Only 85 countries out 209, educational information is up to date.

If you have been following this 8 –part series. You will see the countries with the highest number of children out of school; also have the highest illiterate adult rates; that leads to the highest unemployment rates, that leads to the largest population living in poverty.

What do these countries have in common? These countries are not committed to educate their children.

Let’s Make It Easy for Them

To simplify the process, NJ MED created its ranking system to recognize the countries that are doing a great job to prepare their population for life.

So quarterly, they rate the top 20 countries. By measuring early-childhood enrollment rates; test scores in math, science and reading for lower and upper primary students; and high school and college graduation rates.

Each year, the ranking system starts off by projecting, which 20 countries will rank, as the best education systems for the close of the year (December 31). Follow by an International Survey of students, teachers, parents, educators, and local taxpayers (from May to July), for its second quarter ranking poll.

In September, the poll uses the latest international test scores and graduation rates to rank the top 20 countries, for its third quarter ranking poll.

In December, it closes out the yearly top 20 ranking system, by contacting each nation’s education department to up date the information and confirm the data it used in September is accurate.

The Data System

The information used to compile the rankings, is data that comes from six international educational monitoring organizations.

These organizations include – the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council (UNESOC), The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS).

NJ MED then sends the information it has complied to each country Ministry of Education Department to assure the data is accurate, and get their comments and approval. If the country states their results, were not accurate, NJ MED honors their request and graded them accordingly, with the new source of data they provided. However, if a country does not respond, NJ MED assumes the poll’s information is correct.

What’s Next?

Finding solutions to problems is the next stage in the World Top 20 Poll process. Each year, NJ MED grades countries progress in improvement in one of its five developmental educational stages.

Next year (2018), NJ MED will release its five-year report. That will make recommendations on what areas are in need of improvement and suggestions on what type of support can help solve each nations problems.

The Report’s recommendations and suggestions will come from a panel of international educational leaders from each of the World Top 20 Poll’s five developmental levels (3 to 4, 5 to 10, 11 to 14, 15 to 18, and 18 to 25).

The purpose of this report is to support the initiatives of the 17 Global Goals and 169 target indicators of the Sustainable Development Movement.

Until Then

Starting next month (May 1st to June 30th), it’s your turn to express, what you would do if you where in charge of your country’s education system.

By participating in the 3rd annual International Survey on How Would You Improve Your Country’s Education System?

Those results will be published in July’s 2017 Global Education Report. Until then, please check out the World’s Top 20 Polls 1^st Quarter Report below:

(First –Quarter Rankings of the World’s Best Education System and their Power Ranking Score)

Finland

Finland has held the unofficial title as the country with the world’s best education system, since 2000. After, adding five new key indicators to our educational ranking system, Finland is projected to take the official title in 2017. By outperforming, Japan and the three time winner of our ranking system, South Korea. Finland ranked higher in 3 of the new indicators – Secondary children in school, and teachers to student ratio for both Primary and Secondary schools. Power Ranking Score of 114

NewsPaper

South Korea’s commitment to invest in education pays off

{ South Korea Current Education System }

South Korea May Be the Best, But

2017 World Top 20 Education Poll Final Rankings

A Year in Review: the 5 Biggest Challenges the World Top 20 Project Faced in 2017

Number 5:

Human Sacrifice in South Sudan

What is War Good for? Nothing

The civil war in South Sudan has taken a heavy toll on children and teens. The war began in December 2013 after government troops — known as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army or SPLA.

No one knows how many South Sudanese people have been killed since the outbreak of the civil war.

Here is more information about why Sudanese children and their families have become victims:

Number 3:

The News Just Keeps Getting Worse from Nigeria

It was reported in 2017, Nigeria has the ‘largest number of children out-of-school’ in the world

Number 4:

Killing the Mind

Practicing Evil Ways

Millions of young students in low and middle-income countries face the prospect of lost opportunity and lower wages in later life because their primary and secondary schools are failing to educate them to succeed in life

About 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, signaling “a learning crisis” that could threaten progress on global development goals, according to UNESCO

Who benefits from this???

Below are links to more information, on the learning crisis from around the world:

Number 2:

The Abuse of Power

Trust Miss Found

Read more related information on the victimization of Haitian children:

Number 1:

Profit and Greed Over Life

Child Exploitation

15 Other Major Challenges Children and Countries Faced in 2017:

Every parent wants the same thing… God. Please protect my child.

What Can We Do to Lower the Odds?

How do We Do It?

Working Together towards a Common Goal

Knowing is Half the Battle

IF You have Nothing Better to Do, Why NOT?

Let’s Get to Work

Counting the Cost

Planning is Everything, So Let’s Get to It

Are You Ready For College?

Your Answer Should Be YES

NJ MED Cares

World’s Top 20 Colleges

How Do You Get Into One of these Universities?

What’s Happening on the World’s Top College Campuses?

Be more than a College Student

Now, are You Ready for College?

Where should you begin?

Thanks but No Thanks: I Don’t Think College is for Me

The World Top 20 Education Poll and How it Affects You

I see you: The all seeing eye of the World Top 20 Education Poll

If it does not exist, No One will Know the Truth

Let’s Make It Easy for Them

The Data System

What’s Next?

Until Then