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Состояние школьной инфраструктуры: региональные особенности
Interregional differences of main statistical indicators of material and technical basis of Russian schools are studied. The list of indicators includes: state of buildings and their facilities, communal services, availability of computers and Internet, libraries, providing conditions for physical culture, security (safety), dining-halls. The level of interregional differentiation of indicators under review is measured by traditional statistical characteristics, such as: average median, maximum and minimum value, variation, regional asymmetry, coefficient of asymmetry. Comparative analysis has shown that interregional differences related to the material and technical, and informational provision of the teaching process are rather high, although it is possible to trace the gap in some indicators slackening. It is emphasized that there is a need for complex modernization of general education statistics. In the context of unification of statistical survey over the education institutions' activities and development a rating system for evaluating regions of the Russian Federation is to be established using education development indicators as a tool of an interregional analysis and improvement of the regional educational policy.