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There is considerable ferment in the academic world today—about the high cost of college, about the curriculum and what students actually learn and should learn, about teaching methods, and about the quality of student life. What can be done to channel these concerns constructively into improvements...
...move means that the Medical School, one of the largest of the elite medical schools, will have a more generous financial aid program than all but a few of the nation’s colleges. The annual cost of attending the Medical School is approximately $65,000, according to school officials...
...volunteer crews have cleaned up some of the streets, but the area remains uninhabited; more than 160,000 New Orleans evacuees never came home. Many of the affected areas were among the city’s poorest, and for many former residents, it is simply not worth the cost to return. And so their detritus remains on full display to tourists, a still life. “Despite billions of dollars in aid, recovery programs with catchy names, and an outpouring of volunteer effort, New Orleans is not recovering from Hurricane Katrina,” wrote Associated Press correspondent Brian...
...Tuesday, the annual Expenditures on Children by Families report, which tracks how much it costs to raise a child in America, was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (yes, that's the government bureaucracy charged with this particular tally). According to its latest estimate, a child born in 2007 costs $204,060 to watch over, feed, cart around, educate and house from birth to the age of 18. This amounts to a tenfold increase in less than 50 years. According to the USDA, child-rearing costs have soared since the department began its annual study in 1960, when raising...
...Other methodological hiccups mar the government's report. For example, though housing makes up the largest single cost across income groups - 33% to 37% of total expenses - the estimates do not include mortgage principal payments...