Education in States and Nations: 1991
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Average Average Days of Average
minutes of hours of instruction hours of
instruction instruction per year instruction
Country per school day per day per year
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Sao Paulo and Fortaleza, Brazil 247 4.1 182 749
Canada 304 5.1 188 953
China 305 5.1 251 1,276
England 300 5.0 192 960
France 370 6.2 174 1,073
Germany (West) 276 4.6 219 1,007
Hungary 223 3.7 177 658
Ireland 323 5.4 173 931
Israel 278 4.6 215 996
Emilia Romagna, Italy 289 4.8 204 983
Japan 240 4.0 220 880
Jordan 260 4.3 191 828
Korea 264 4.4 222 977
Portugal 334 5.6 172 957
Scotland 324 5.4 191 1,031
Slovenia 248 4.1 190 785
Soviet Union 258 4.1 198 812
Spain 243 4.1 188 761
Switzerland 305 5.1 207 1,052
Taiwan 318 5.3 222 1,177
United States 338 5.6 178 1,003
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NOTE: See supplemental note to Indicator 20 for details on data and sample sizes from Canada, Emilia Romagna (Italy), England, Israel, Portugal, Scotland, the Soviet Union, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States; and for discussions of the calculation of instructional hours per day for the U.S. states and the International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP).
SOURCE: Educational Testing Service, International Assessment of Education Progress, Learning Mathematics, Figure 5.2. For West Germany: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Study of Reading Literacy, 1992. For Japan: Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture, National Institute of Educational Research, Government of Japan, 1992.
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