Quick Hits (11.5.12)

Degree attainment on the rise. For the first time ever, one-third of 25- to 29-year-olds have at least a bachelor’s degree. (Pew Research Center)

When teachers aren’t there. Traditional public school teachers are absent more than 10 times per year at a rate that is 15.2 percentage points higher than in charter schools, according to a new report that finds minority students are more likely than their white peers to have absent teachers. (Center for American Progress)

Cleaning up after the flood. For many New York students in schools still drying out after Superstorm Sandy, the time away has been difficult. But for this Coney Island alternative school for some of the city’s most vulnerable youth, the time away “could be catastrophic.” (Hechinger Report)

“A good president needs to have a good attitude and he or she needs to be responsible and be … cooperation.” Miami, Fla., first-graders explain what they would do if they were president. (The Miami Herald)