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...rationalize the exorbitant cost of their education by viewing it as a prudent investment. Armed with bachelors’ degrees branded with Harvard’s prestigious name, many expect careers lucrative enough to exceed the nearly $200,000 spent during their four years in Cambridge. In order to result in a net utility gain and therein to serve as a judicious investment, the benefits of student’s time spent under the Crimson must exceed the costs—both the direct financial cost of attending, pegged at $48,868 for next year, and the indirect opportunity cost...
...education may be drastically overstated. By examining the incomes of adults who were accepted by a highly selective college but who choose to enroll at a less prestigious institution, Princeton economist Alan Krueger attempted to correct for such lurking factors as students’ maturity, motivation, and ambition that result in admission to competitive schools but also correlate with high earnings potential. His finding—that the adults who turned down the offer of elite education earned slightly more than their peers who pursued it—gives credence to the conclusion that Harvard students, not Harvard itself, account...
...only a third of 12th-grade public-school students in rural areas scored at or above proficient, consistent with the national average. Rural dropout rates are higher than in the suburbs and lower than in cities.On one hand, the success of public education in any setting is largely the result of quantitative factors that influence schools across regions. Discrepancies in these values manifest themselves in educational inequalities and, over time, have contributed largely to the achievement gap the United States struggles to overcome today. Yet less tangible factors also fundamentally determine the trajectory of a child’s education...
York, Byron •Obama's high approval ratings are dismissed by as merely the result of lots of blacks liking him, making his positions seem "more popular overall than they actually are" - that is, more popular among all people than they actually are among the only people who really count, white ones
...less while their executives take home more) and the billing staffs we have to hire to deal with them. This money does nothing for patients; it's a health-care expense that produces no health care. It could easily be eliminated with simple, intelligent, centralized payment rules. The result would be at least 5% more care for the money...