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...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...
...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...
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...
...held up better than men's. They now average 70% of male earnings, vs. 60% in 1970. The poverty rate finally went down by half a percentage point in 1994, to 14.5% of the population, the first decline since before the 1990-91 recession. But real wages of the median worker have fallen 4.6% since 1979--and more than half that drop, or 2.5%, has come after Clinton's Inauguration...
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT CAROL AND PAUL MEDIAN, she 32 and he 34, married for one year and living just south of Bloomington, Indiana. They are as average as can be. Last year Paul earned $28,449, and Carol made $23,479, precisely the midpoint paychecks for men and women their age. It also happens that their part of Indiana is the population center of the U.S. Since no real-life couple is truly typical, however, I have created the fictional Medians, going by Census figures, to give a sense of the exact middle of American life. In ways...