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...vast majority do an excellent job teaching, and their median CUE rating is 4.2,” Gross wrote...
...show in their book “The Shape of the River” that only one percent of white students at the most selective institutions come from the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds, while over 90 percent of students at these selective institutions come from households above the median American income ($60,000 per year). This lack in socioeconomic diversity is also linked to racial diversity, skewing not only students’ perceptions of what is normal or average in this country, but also what racial categories such as “Asian American” really represent...
...interlocks are not a cost-free panacea. Although legislators typically spend other people’s money with wild abandon, even the most starry-eyed politician might balk at mandating the use of these locks, which cost rougly $1,000 per year. This increase, over two percent of the median American’s annual income, would significantly harm the quality of millions of Americans’ lives, imposing costs on adults who never drink...
...numbers are startling. A study by the Center for Equal Opportunity found that Asian-American applicants to selective colleges have significantly higher test scores than applicants of other races. For example, in 2005, the median test score for Asian students offered admission to the University of Michigan was 50 points higher than the median score for white students, 140 points higher than Hispanic students, and 240 points higher than black students. (The SAT used a 1600-point scale at the time...
Today Miami is the least affordable metropolitan area in the U.S. It has one of the highest median house prices ($372,000) and the nation's wealthiest community (Fisher Island, where luminaries like Oprah Winfrey have had homes). But a heavy reliance on the tourism industry and its attendant low-wage service jobs has given Miami one of America's lowest household median incomes ($33,000) and the country's highest proportion of renters and homeowners who spend 30% or more of their pay on housing...