Word: survey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survey considers such factors as selectivity, faculty, graduation and retention rates, and financial resources. This year, the magazine put increased weight on a school's expenditure per student--a category in which Caltech, with its wealth of lab facilities, more than doubles the amount spent by Harvard, Princeton and Yale--as well as several other categories...
Koonin said Caltech's rise in the rankings from last year was due to changes in the survey's methodology, not to changes in Caltech. He adds that he expected the weightings to change again next year...
...want to give your teen something sophisticated to go with dinner, try offering an extra portion of you. A different survey of 2,000 teenagers released last week shows a direct relationship between teen substance abuse and the lack of close familial connections--especially between children and their fathers. I asked my group of college students what they thought society could do for them--more ad campaigns, safer campuses, a lower drinking age? To a person, they said the real education should happen at home, starting well before they are teenagers, maybe as young as age seven. ("By the time...
...INVOLVED When parents inquire about the possibility of a change in dress code, the school board typically sends a survey to its families. If two-thirds of the parents surveyed respond positively, administrators, teachers, parents and students work together to come up with a code or uniform, along with incentives, compliance measures and means for providing free uniforms to needy families. A dress policy, says Van Der Laan, must be "parent driven." Only then is a new policy likely to succeed...
SENIORS AND WORK Baby boomers, note: retirement no longer means lounge chairs and unread novels. A survey out last week says 1 in 5 retired Americans ages 50 to 75 work for pay; 42% of those not yet retired have plans to do so; 60% of both groups do volunteer work. Some reasons: longer active life and healthier self-esteem. Respondents' least favorite labels: "elderly" and "golden ager...