nytimes.com: 12 Sept 2012
Britain: British Schools Offer More Upward Mobility for Students Than American Ones, Report Says
By D. D. GUTTENPLAN
- British schools now do a better job than American schools of lifting students up the social ladder, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a report published Tuesday. In Britain, a student whose parents never graduated from high school has a 60 percent chance of attending college, while in the United States the odds are just 29 percent, one of the lowest levels among the 34 countries with advanced economies that make up the O.E.C.D., which is based in Paris.