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...least Harvard students with quashed financial ambitions can console themselves with immense monetary value of their diplomas—right? The fact that increased education attainment correlates with increased income is indisputable. Two decades of data from the U.S. Census Bureau make manifest this education-income ladder, by which each additional year of schooling (except in the case of graduate school) is associated with additional annual earnings. Although such correlations do not imply causality, the logic that more education means more money lends itself to the logic that a more prestigious education means even more money. According to payscale.com...
...deducing the high monetary value of a Harvard education from the fact that Harvard graduates make lots of money is problematic. Without sufficient correction for the unique characteristics of Harvard students, the value added by a top-tier 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...
...designs costumes for HRDC. She takes photographs, plays keyboard in a band, is interested in architecture, and is a commercial graphic designer. Seen the Fogg Art Museum’s brochure? It’s hers. She likes both creating and watching animations as well. Her bow, in fact, was inspired by a character in a Miyazaki animated film named Kiki, a 13-year-old witch-in-training who flies away from home with her talking cat named Jiji and a large red bow. Indeed, she seems to have as many interests as she has bows on her bow shelf...
Inequalities in American public schools indicate one of our nation’s greatest failings. The massively disparate educational opportunities available to children based on the socioeconomic status of their families is a tragedy so familiar and ingrained that talk of it risks seeming banal, and the fact that educational inequality falls largely down racial lines further perpetuates the sordid history of race in the United States. To say that the achievement gap is a persistent and consistent record of misunderstanding and prejudice is an understatement.Beyond the familiar story of educational inequality in the United States, however, lies an additional...
...interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat President, Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence" - though interestingness of it is significantly mitigated by the inconvenient fact that the '70s swine flu outbreak occurred under Republican President Gerald Ford...