More From CIA World Fact Book

           In class today we shared a ton of extra facts that were interesting from the CIA World Fact Book website. The one piece of information I had to share with the class was about the school life expectancy- what it is, what the U.S. expectancy is and what the world expectancy is. When I clicked on what this educational expectancy is, the definition read "School life expectancy (SLE) is the total number of years of schooling (primary to tertiary) that a child can expect to receive." This actually made a lot of sense when reading it so, then I dug further. The SLE in the U.S. is 16 years for men and 17 years for women. This is actually really shocking because normally, the men would be in school longer. When you take these numbers and compare them to the world, the SLE goes from 16 and 17 years to 12 years for both genders. This mean the U.S. is actually doing much better then most of the world which is shocking because in many cases, we are slacking.