Word: median
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potentially the strongest in academic terms that had ever enrolled" at the College, a total of 50 students withdrew, 41 with unsatisfactory records. Only eight of these students, however, had PRL's in the bottom 10 per cent of the class, while 16 ranked above the median. Thirteen held scholarships from the College and "several others" had grants from other sources...
...student is what parents figure as the median annual cost, and 16% estimate their total family bill as more than...
...says Roper, is that so few parents are doing any advance planning. The poll showed that 60% have not yet set up any savings plan-of these, 25% have had "no chance to think about it." The families who do have savings plans (40%) managed to save only a median $150 last year. At that rate, it will take them ten years to save enough for one year of college for one child-at current costs, and last year alone costs jumped 9.5%. Concludes Ford Foundation Vice President Clarence Faust: "American parents apparently need to know more about the economics...
Virtuoso Instrument. By any description it could boast of remarkable achievements. It homogenized waves of immigrants, inculcated morality without religious affiliation and boosted brainpower across the nation. From an eighth-grade education in 1940, the median schooling of adult Americans has risen to 10.8 years (and will be 12.2 by 1965). Against 95,000 graduates in 1900, U.S. high schools this year produced 1,500,000, and half of them are going to college. And out of public schools in every corner of the land have marched armies of the nation's future leaders...
Paws in the Till. For Georgia alone, Green and Gauerke report, the dollar costs would be astronomical-at least double or triple present budgets. Georgia now spends only $265 a year per public school pupil (U.S. median: $332). But it still provides all the services typical of a public system-free books and transportation, library supervision, an expanding guidance and testing program, adult and vocational education, special teachers for handicapped children. In contrast to Atlanta's private schools, which spend an average $625 per pupil (and in some cases charge extra for books, food, buses), the public schools cost...