3 million crimes per year are committed on or near school property. http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/taku77/papers/vc/vc5.htm

6,000 American students were kicked out of school in the 1996-97 school year for packing weapons.- John Hendren, "Internet Provides Bomb Blueprints," www.ap.org, April 26, 1999 (Kids Killing Kids) http://www.yellodyno.com/html/violent_kids_stats.html

2,500 High School students drop out of school every day. U.S. News + World Report, 4-24-06

One million U.S. students took guns to school in 1998. Parents Resource Institute for Drug Addiction. http://www.yellodyno.com/html/violent_kids_stats.html

20% of high school students reported carrying some type of weapons to school each day. Centers for Disease Control. http://www.cdc.gov

68% of prison inmates do not have a High School diploma. U.S. News + World Report, 4-24-06

Almost 33% of school teachers seriously considered leaving their jobs because of student misbehavior. Research firm Public Agenda. http://publicagenda.org/

Nearly 80 percent of school teachers said there are serious troublemakers in their schools who should have been kicked out of regular classrooms. Research firm Public Agenda as reported by www.theolympian.com

Research firm Public Agenda found that college professors who train teachers give a low priority to skills like keeping order and training politeness.

36% of high school students reported having been involved in a physical fight in the last year. http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r2k0609b.htm

21% of high school students said they avoided using places like school rest rooms because of the threat of harm. U.S. Department of Education

Dr. Victor B. Cline of the University of Utah has estimated that between kindergarten and age 14 a child witnesses the violent death of over 13,000 human beings on the TV screen." http://www.nisbett.com/leavening/creeping/cc06.htm

2,500 educators (three for every school day) from 2001 through 2005 were punished for sexual misconduct, 80 percent of those being to students. Associated Press investigation http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303780,00.html

Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland. Approx. 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma, but about 1.2 million students drop out annually. America's Promise Alliance, based upon U.S. Department of Education data from 2003-2004. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344190,00.html

According to a Nielsen Television Index, pre-schoolers sit in front of the tube an average of 54.1 hours each week (64% of their waking hours). http://www.nisbett.com/leavening/creeping/cc06.htm http://www.ridgenet.org/szaflik/tvrating.htm

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), which is linked to viewing children TV shows, now affects from 4 to 12 percent of U.S. Children. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5933775/

63% of the Hollywood Elite say the industry glorifies violence. U.S. News And World Report May 9, 1994: 39-44 http://www.ridgenet.org/szaflik/tvrating.htm; http://www.nisbett.com/leavening/creeping/cc06.htm

See and do: over 1,000 studies testify to a casual connection between violence in media and aggressive behavior in children. Violence As Entertainment, Crime Prevention Resource, Fort Worth, TX http://www.yellodyno.com/html/childabusestatistics.html

In 1940, teachers listed the following concerns (in order of magnitude) that interfered with a child's education: (a) talking out of turn; (b) chewing gum; (c) making noise; (d) running in the halls; (e) getting out of line; (f) wearing improper clothing and; (g) not putting paper in the wastebasket. Today, teachers rank the following concerns (in order of magnitude) which interfere with a child's education: (a) drug abuse; (b) alcohol abuse; (c) teen pregnancy; (d) suicide; (e) rape; (f) robbery and: (g) assault. William Kilpatrick; “Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong, pg. 64. (Simon & Schuster, 1992).www.rchristopherministries.org

50% of all home schooling parents are born again Christians. Barna Research 2001. http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=103

Children that go to Sunday School will receive approx. 78 hours of religious teaching a year. The same will receive approx. 1,260 hours of school and about the same of television. Statistics Concerning the State of America http://freedomministries.com/outlinestats.

Teens devote an average of 7 out of 17 waking hours a day to input from radio, TV, the Internet, etc. Barna Research; http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/200001/012_second_coming.cfm

Nearly 90% of American teens ages 12 - 17 have Internet access, along with approx. 66% of adults. Pew Internet and American life project.

Adolescents and adults now spend, on average, more than 64 days a year watching television, 41 days listening to the radio and a little over a week using the Internet. http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html

Among adults, 97 million Internet users sought news online in 2005, 92 million purchased a product and 91 million made a travel reservation. About 16 million used a social or professional networking site and 13 million created a blog. Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007 (Table 1139)http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/miscellaneous/007871.html.

The first practical television system began operating in the 1940s. Television reached 9 percent of homes in 1950 and almost 90 percent in 1960. United States (History)," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2004 http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

22 percent of adult Americans are functionally illiterate (they cannot read the front page of a newspaper). The U.S. Department of Education National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS);Kirsch I, et al. Adult Literacy in America: A First Look at the Findings of the National Adult Literacy Survey. Washington, DC. National Center for Education Statistics, US Dept of Education, 1993.

Approximately 50 percent of Americans have reading and computational skills that are inadequate for them to fully function in our modern society. ^ http://www.rmf.harvard.edu/risklibrary/articles/i_health-literacy-incP.asp

47 percent of Americans could not understand written directions to take medicine on an empty stomach, and 60 percent did not understand the standard consent form. Williams MV, et al. Inadequate functional health literacy among patients at two public hospitals. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1995; 274:1677–82.

Only 31 percent of fourth graders read at or above grade level. http://www.childrensdefense.org/pressreleases/040713.asp

Seven out of ten fourth graders cannot read or do math at grade level. http://www.childrensdefense.org/pressreleases/040713.asp

Between 1963 and 1980 national SAT composite scores fell 90 points. College Board Annual SAT Score Reports. 19631980.

The high school class of 2006 recorded the sharpest drop in SAT scores in 31 years. Associated Press.

Nearly 60 percent of high-school seniors lack even a basic knowledge of U.S. History. 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey tests

The national graduation rate is 68 percent, with nearly one-third of all public high school students failing to graduate (2001). http://www.urban.org/publications/410934.htm

The 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey tests show that only about 56% of the blacks and 83% of the whites over sixteen are literate. [55] Scores on 1994 NAEP reading tests indicate that 42% of the 4th graders can't read; 72% of the 8th graders can't read 8th grade assignments; and 66% of the nation's high school seniors can't read 9th grade textbooks in any core subject. USDE. 1994. NAEP Reading: A First Look. p. 18.

Over 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks (unable to interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, comprehend arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees, or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school). American Institutes for Research Ben Feller, Associated Press | January 20, 2006

Almost 80% of seniors at 55 of our best colleges and universities earned a D or F grade on a high-school level American history test a1999 survey showed. USDE 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey tests http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2000-11/cohen.html

Enrollment has increased 70.6 percent since 1990, from 135,000 to 230,000, at the 102 evangelical schools belonging to the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities. Higher Education Research Institute at the UCLA; USA Today Dec. 14, 2005 .

During the same period, enrollments at public colleges increased by 12.8 percent, and at private colleges the increase was 28 percent. USA Today Dec. 14. 2005 Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22361

62% more students are going to college than did in the 1960s". Bill Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard.

The District of Columbia leads the nation in the proportion of college grads. http://www.epodunk.com/top10/collegeDiploma/index.html

50% of American college faculty identified themselves as Democrats and 11% as Republicans (33% calling Independent, 5% another party) 72% described themselves as "to the left of center, including 18% who were strongly left. Only 15% described themselves as right of center, including only 3% who were strongly right.". This is in contrast to the the general population in which (in 1999) 18% viewed themselves as liberal and 37% conservative (15% and 33% in 2004). North American Academic Study Survey (NAASS) of students, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, 1999 by Angus Reid (now Ipsos-Reid) copyrite The Berkeley Electronic Press, 2005http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=forum#search=%22%20Politics%20and%20Professional%20Advancement%20Stanley%20Rothman%22

Nearly half (47 percent) of college freshmen enrolled in 2005 had earned an average grade of A in high school, compared to 2-in-10 (20 percent) in 1970. The majority (79 percent) of freshmen in 1970 had an important personal objective of “developing a meaningful philosophy of life.” By 2005, the majority of freshmen (75 percent) said their primary objective was “being very well off financially.” Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007, (Table 274). http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/miscellaneous/007871.html

Only 9.6 percent of high school graduates are poor, compared to 22.2 percent of those without a diploma. Copyright © 2002 National Center for Policy Analysis; http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba428/

Of those people who complete some college, only 6.6 percent fall below the poverty line. This drops to 3.3 percent of those with a bachelor's degree or higher. Copyright © 2002 National Center for Policy Analysis; See more at http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba428/