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Income distributions by undergraduate major

Something I hear pretty frequently when I bring up one of these Payscale reports is that I should include an estimate of the spread in the data. This is an excellent point, so I turned again to the National Center for Education Statistics. They have a PowerStats tool that lets

More on College ROI

Turns out I made a bit of a hasty generalization yesterday, the College of William and Mary doesn't have an engineering program, but it is at least a state institution. A few people asked about other well-known engineering schools, so here are the top 50 schools sorted by

College ROI

College ROI

Payscale recently published a list of return on investment for various colleges. This was then picked up by BusinessWeek, so I'm sure lots of people have seen it. As published, the list is dominated by elite private schools, but the reason for this is they chose to sort

The College Gender Gap

The College Gender Gap

Mark Perry has a post on the increasing disparity between men and women's secondary educational attainment, resulting in the interesting graph linked above. [data here] This matches my personal experience, since the Magista, being a Master of Science, has two college degrees, while I have only one. I

The End of the American Upper Class

I suppose what the author really means is the end of the dominance of the American upper class, since they are still there, just lower key. Nonetheless, Philips makes the claim that the transformation of American society into a meritocratic one was caused by the return of the officers from

Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Slate has a review of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System. I found a lot of good information in Ravitch's earlier book, The Language Police, so I may have to read this one as well. Ravitch recently created

Exactly what I was thinking

Immediately after my off the cuff comment about SWPL children in public schools causing problems, comes this gem. John Taylor Gatto writes: I’ve yet to meet a parent in public school who ever stopped to calculate the heavy, sometimes lifelong price their children pay for the privilege of being