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Area Four's unemployment is double that of the rest of the city. Its median family income is about 70 percent the city's average. Minorities comprise 52 percent of the population, as compared to Cambridge's 18 percent overall...

Author: By Aby. Fung and Alexander T. Nguyen, S | Title: Cambridge's Area Four: Poverty Tinged With Hope | 5/8/1996 | See Source »

Area Four has the highest unemployment rate in Cambridge, 10.8 percent according to 1990 census data, and one of the lowest median family incomes of about...

Author: By Aby. Fung and Alexander T. Nguyen, S | Title: Cambridge's Area Four: Poverty Tinged With Hope | 5/8/1996 | See Source »

...Over the past several years, we have managed to maintain a monotonic downward trend in tuition rate increases, even though these increases continue to be higher than those in the consumer price index or in median family income," Knowles wrote...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: FAS Budget Controlled, But Shaky | 2/13/1996 | See Source »

...most of the last three semesters, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has kicked around a proposal intended to curb grade inflation by adding the median grade and size of the class to the transcript...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Burst the Ivy Grade Bubble | 2/8/1996 | See Source »

According to this line of thought, schools could misunderstand the data, and view a high median in small courses (like tutorials) as inflated, when in fact it reflects a high level of effort and expertise on the part of the students...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Burst the Ivy Grade Bubble | 2/8/1996 | See Source »

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