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...even as they grow in clout, for-profit schools are still struggling to do what their name denotes--make money. That requires taking the same government funds that the average school district spends per pupil per year--the U.S. average is $6,500--and not only providing a superior education but also squeezing out a profit. That's a tough task in a field in which "the margins are more like McDonald's than Microsoft's," as Thomas Toch, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, puts...
...impact of for-profit schooling, early marks have been encouraging. Whittle says Edison students have raised their performance on standardized tests an average of 5 percentage points a year--a hefty gain at a time when many districts report little improvement. But not all Edison schools can show performance superior to public schools. Says Whittle: "We either make it or don't make it on the basis of test scores...
Peters Crick said her decision to attend was based on Harvard's offer of tuition, which was far superior to the University of Virginia's, where she had considered studying English...
...river view. You walk in, and everyone's dressed well," Helen Springut '03, a regular attendee, describes. "There's a table in the back with wine, and some older guy looks at you and asks, 'Red or White?' " Das' friend, social swinger Paul R. Mrockowski '00, attests to the superior pedigree of the wine bar. As a self-declared wino, Mrockowski can appreciate the connoisseur in Das--a small reward for the approximate $500 Das drops per party...
Then there's Airbus, long ridiculed by Boeing as a massive pork-barrel project for second-rate aircraft manufacturers. Last year the European consortium captured 55% of global-passenger jetliner sales, outflanking Boeing for the first, but probably not the last, time. Competitive prices and superior salesmanship are factors in the success of Airbus, but so is technology. Airbus beat Boeing to the market with computer-laden "fly-by-wire" technology, which, it says, enhances safety while lowering costs. The flying experience is so similar from model to model that Airbus-equipped airlines save millions of dollars in training costs...