Word: medians
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There are 11,021 citizens in Greene County, Ala., and 78% of them are black. They mainly work the soybean and cotton fields that surround the tiny county seat of Eutaw. 80 miles southwest of Birmingham. Greene County is poor: the median per capita income is $4,019. But its black residents are proud of a civil rights revolution they helped create. Says John Kennard, the county's first black tax assessor: "One of the most cherished things our people have here in the black belt is the right to vote." TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce visited...
...Though job offers have leveled off at some institutions in this economically ambiguous year, the good M.B.A. schools have little difficulty placing their alumni-including the ambitious young women who now make up nearly one-third of the class-at starting salaries approaching $30,000. At Stanford, the 1980 median starting salary was $31,998, up 16% over the previous year. One Stanford graduate got a bid of $52,000. A Harvard graduate was offered $59,000. The students are correspondingly euphoric. Says Chicago's Geoffrey Faux, 26: "By going to an elite business school, I'm giving...
...member of the civic affairs club, and as a senior he was in the Rodeo Club, which organized barbecues, square dances and junkets to rodeos. In his yearbook John's roster of activities was scanty but unembarrassing, just as his senior-picture hair length seemed perfectly median, neither long nor short. Bill Lierman, the Rodeo Club's sponsor, recalled nothing untoward. Says Lierman: "He wasn't a rowdy. He got along fine with all the kids." And a sampling of schoolmates' reminiscences shows a consensus. David Wildman, the basketball captain, calls him "a middle...
Cabrini-Green consists of 23 high-rise buildings and 55 row houses, all packed onto a 70-acre wedge of Chicago just south of the trendy Old Town neighborhood. Even when the project opened 39 years ago, the neighborhood was a high-crime pocket. Today the median income is $4,575 a year, and almost eight out of ten famines are headed by one parent. The TV comedy Good Times-about a loving, industrious black mother and children-is centered on a family at Cabrini-Green, but the project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors...
Test scores of the 450 pupils dramatically bear out Fitler's success. Less than 50% of Philadelphia's pupils reach or surpass the national median on standardized tests in reading, math and language skills; at Fitler, 81% do so. Only 2% of Fitler's students are in the bottom sixth; citywide, the percentage is 17%. Such scores evidently result from Fitler's program, not just good luck in obtaining bright students. The evidence: Fitler children scored far lower at the start of the school's old-fashioned experiment in 1976; they have improved each year...