Brainiacs Take Brooklyn
Last week’s roundups of Brooklyn census data skipped over a couple of things, which the NY Daily News has picked up. Our high school and college graduation rates have swung up since that last count, eight years ago, as did the wealth of the average Brooklynite and the number of us who are employed. “The…
Last week’s roundups of Brooklyn census data skipped over a couple of things, which the NY Daily News has picked up. Our high school and college graduation rates have swung up since that last count, eight years ago, as did the wealth of the average Brooklynite and the number of us who are employed. “The number of 25-year-olds holding at least a high school diploma soared 17%, to 1.2 million, while those with at least a bachelor’s degree rose by 30%, to 438,568 people,” they write. Brooklyn public high schools’ four-year graduation rate rose to 59.8% in 2007, from 46.6% in 2000. The median income rose 27%, to $40,942. The numbers “proved what many had already known: Brooklyn was experiencing a renaissance.” The evidence, sited by one college professor: organic juice joints replacing bodegas, a sign of “rapid gentrification.” But the higher test scores might have more to do with an influx “higher-educated adults” from the Caribbean and Asia; the latter population increased by 21%. The neighborhoods where fortunes rose most dramatically? Cobble Hill, Park Slope and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Youth Movement Fires Brooklyn Boro Gentrification [NY Daily News]
Photo by mccfamtracker.
So we’re importing the brains from the Carribean and Asia. Can’t be a bad thing.
i don’t think the youth are screwed necessarily because of budget cuts. that’s a cop out. if someone wants a good free education they can get one. if parents want to make sure their kids stay in school, they can do that. lazy students and lazy parents have nothing to do with a few less laptops being put into classrooms. im lazy now as an adult but i made sure that even tho i went to a crappy school i got an education. then i made sure to find a way get to money to go to a crappy state college and get a higher education. if people are really invested in their education they will find a way.
there’s a certain amount of laziness that is taught from generation to generation in this city and it’s gross.
*rob*
Oh, DIBS, no snarky posts here…save it for the ‘open thread’
Did I say something wrong. I did spell everything correctlly.
And with impending budget cuts that are sure to effect the education system…..the youth are screwed.
So, DIBS, your going to be surrounded by people like I!!
Can’t buy a bag of Utz chips, peanut butter, Wonder bread and a carton of milk for a midnight snack in a juice bar for god’s sake.
You’d love to see the level what, Dave? You’d love to see the level period? Or did we miss a word here?
And I agree with Rob, nothing wrong and sometimes much right with a nice little bodega. Those things can be lifesavers at 2am, sometimes literally.
dave, (hoping you dont already have one..), but if you want to see that, just sign up for a myspace account! granted, im sure, (hopefully), that internet speak doesnt cross over into the professional world.. but im sure it does.. definitely get lots of LOL’s and OMFG’s WORK emails from people who just recently graduated COLLEGE! lol im probably just as bad and im almost 32 tho!
*rob*
As much as I want to post a snarky comment about BRG’s question coming from her I’ll resist and add that I too would love to see the level of grammar & sentence structure coming out of your average high school graduate these days.
quote:
organic juice joints replacing bodegas
people like to complain about the supposedly high prices in bodegas, but what about the even ridiculously higher prices for the same crap in prettier packaging at organic juice joints? there’s a huge disconnect. people think taking the bodegas out of a neighborhood is an improvement, but not when it’s replaced by other things that are economically out of reach for the average person. (myself included.).
that said, it’s nice to see the graduation rate be higher. however the article fails to mention the push in the last 4-5 years for “forced graduation”. i.e. get those kids out of the school system because there is no room and or money for people on the 5 and 6 year plan.
*rob*
Its all well…but can they spell?