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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Oct. 17, 1985
Education worth the price College grads gain edge back
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The financial return on a college education — the edge in earnings a college graduate has over a high school graduate — is growing again after shrinking during the 1970s, a Census Bureau study released yesterday indicated.
The report, a special demographic study by two Census analysts, also found that giant strides in schooling since 1940 had made the American people the most educated in the world. However, it also said the quality of education in U.S. schools sagged during the 1970s.
The report, "Education in the United States: 1940-1983," by Dave M. O'Neill and Peter Sepielli, said, "Contrary to most current opinion,
the market for college graduates may be reviving."
It said many people had been concerned that the value of a college degree would not hold up if too many people received college educations.
Buttressing those fears were studies made in the late 1960s and 1970s showing an erosion in the traditional edge in earning power that college graduates had over those with only high school diplomas.
"Less than 45 years ago a solid majority of young adults were either high school dropouts or had never gone beyond elementary school," the report said. "Today high school dropouts have been reduced to a minority."
In 1940, only 38 percent of those
ages 25 to 29 had attained a high school diploma, and a mere six percent had college degrees. Now, the report said, 86 percent of those surveyed by the Census Bureau said they had high school diplomas and 22 percent said they had college degrees.
"These are very large trends, and they have made the American people the most educated in the world," the report said.
It cited surveys saying that during 1980-81 almost 32 percent of all U.S. adults 25 or older had at least some college education, compared with 17.3 percent of East Germans, 17.2 percent of Canadians, 15.5 percent of Swedes, 14.5 percent of Japanese, and 7 percent of Hungarians.
8 killed in Cape Town rioting
United Press International
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Police shot and killed four people yesterday as crowds burned barricades of tires and hurled stones and firebombs during escalating racial unrest in Cape Town.
In a surprise development, the South African Medical Council barred from practice a government-employed doctor, Benjamin Tucker, because of his failure to properly treat Steve Biko, a black leader who was an imprisoned political detainee when he died in September 1977.
Biko died of brain injuries after he was assaulted by police in a Port Elizabeth prison cell. Tucker, the surgeon responsible for his welfare, signed medical reports that failed to mention his injuries and declared him dead in the back of a truck more than 600 miles to Pretoria, where he died.
The shootings in Cape Town raised the toll in 24 hours of black and mixed-race riots to at least eight killed and more than 25 wounded. More than 60 people have died since
violence erupted in the city two months ago.
Police in Cape Town said they shot and killed two black men about 5 p.m. when a police patrol was stoned and fire-bombed by a mob. Two teenagers and a child were wounded, police said.
Residents of Cape Town's segregated black and mixed-race townships also said a 14-year-old black girl was shot to death by police at the Nyanga railway station and a mixed-race youth was killed in a separate clash with police near a teachers' training college in Athlone.
Three mixed-race youths were shot and killed and at least 11 people were wounded in a police ambush late Tuesday. Witnesses said an unmarked truck drove up to a barricade in the Athlone township, six miles from the city center, and officers jumped up and opened fire from among boxes on the back when youths began to throw stones.
"The fact is that they are committing a crime and we will use any method in combating them," a police spokesman said later.
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