So,
as some of you my know, I'm as a couple of days ago a freshman at Olin
College in Boston. One of the classes I'm taking there is called
Modelling and Control of the Physical World, or ModSim for
short. It's a great class. Actually, the professor who wrote Think Python, an open source text book on learning Python, is teaching it.
We've
just been given our first project. As part of that, we're working in
teams of two. My project concerns the development of primary education
in developing countries (there's a project description out here, look at the first case).
We've
already been looking at the Education Policy and Data Center's website;
however, I was hoping to find further data. We are looking at a variety
of countries right now, as we're writing our own project description.
Notable examples include Nepal and Pakistan.
We
are looking for data that would help us model "the demographics of
primary education in developing countries, and the challenges associated
with achieving universal primary education by 2015." So statistics on
schooling numbers, population and age ranges, drop out and graduation rates, ratio of funds spent on education, pupil/teacher ratio and that sort of thing would be very helpful.
Note
that this is a little time-sensitive. We don't have to finish our
project until October, but we have close interim deadlines coming up -
so if somebody runs into some data over the weekend, this would be
greatly appreciated!
Also
let me know how you would like to be cited in my project so that I can
properly credit and thank you for helping me find data!
I assume this might help out a bit:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/