Write the missing words in the blanks. Choose from these words.
afford discipline	egalitarian identical	primary rural	statistic status

1		In some countries, a university degree is a sign of . In other countries it's extremely usual.
2		Many students in the United States cannot to go to private universities because they are so expensive.
3		John's seven-year-old son attends school.
4		In many areas, children don't go to high school because they have to help with the farm work.
5		In many schools in the United States, teachers spend more time dealing with problems than they do teaching.
6		An interesting shows that 88 percent of all students in Japan finish high school.
7		In universities in the United States, students choose a lot of elective classes, so no two courses of study are .
8		While public schools in the United States are supposedly , studies show that schools in poor areas are actually much worse than schools in rich areas.