Word: medians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dying System. New York was once a teachers' mecca. the high-paying home of nationally renowned academic high schools. Compared with other big cities, it still pays well: the New York median salary is $7,425 (v. the national $5,716). Yet New York has a lower starting salary than any of 104 surrounding school districts, and pay seems so skimpy for men teachers in particular that an estimated 50% of them work an average three hours a day at moonlighting jobs...
Intelligence of the average indicated by his college board scores--remains at the present Median scores for this year's about 680 on the verbal 695 for mathematics...
...bill wouldn't have had nearly as much force in 1950, he claimed, because at that time the median number of years of Negro education was much lower. In 1950, Mississippi had a median of five years; at present the figure is between six and seven years, with the elderly Negro group holding the median down. Not greatly affected by the bill, this elderly group is an unimportant target anyway, explained Pettigrew, because "it is a product of the lynching period and not very disposed to vote...
...effect, the Common Market nations have woven all their conflicting patchworks of farm supports and subsidies, quotas and tariffs into a single system that will 1) apply to all members uniformly; 2) gradually bring long-divergent price levels to a Market-wide median; 3) encourage the heavy consumers of farm produce, such as West Germany, to buy within the family from its biggest producers, notably France...
...Unfavored Many. Nonetheless, Russian education has serious shortcomings. The median schooling completed by Russian adults is still only four years, compared with eleven in the U.S. Enrollment in Russian higher education as a whole is still considerably smaller than in the U.S. (see chart). The number of Russian youngsters aged eight to 14 was 36% lower in 1959 than in 1939 (because of heavy wartime losses in the fertile age brackets), threatening a critical shortage of skilled labor. Sweeping reforms of the Soviet school system (TIME, July 18, 1960) now send most of these youngsters into industry after eight years...