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• A’s for Everyone: How Grade Inflation Is Wrecking Higher Education
• Daylong Chicago teachers' strike aimed at averting deeper cuts
• Q&A: Chicago teachers to strike for one day over budget
• Hundreds of thousands protest at French labor reforms
• How U.S. News Accounts for Test-Optional Colleges in Our Rankings

A’s for Everyone: How Grade Inflation Is Wrecking Higher Education Posted: 31 Mar 2016 04:25 PM PDT "It's likely that American competitiveness will suffer if we continue to water down undergraduate education," former Duke University geology professor Stuart Rojstaczer wrote in an email to TakePart about Grade Inflation, the report released Tuesday on his website. Rojstaczer has become known as "Mr. Grade Inflation" since he first criticized the uptick in grades in an op-ed published in The Washington Post in 2003. Since then he has worked with Chris Healy, a computer science professor at Furman University, to produce several analyses of grade inflation.

Daylong Chicago teachers' strike aimed at averting deeper cuts Posted: 31 Mar 2016 03:47 PM PDT Decried as illegal by critics, 27,000 Chicago public schoolteachers planned on Friday to leave their classrooms to protest the lack of a contract and failure to stabilize the finances of the third largest U.S. public school system. The Chicago Teachers Union's one-day strike comes at a point when educators have worked without a labor agreement since last July. The district, with its $1.1 billion deficit, also faces the possibilities of state funding cuts and a state takeover pushed by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, a Republican.

Q&A: Chicago teachers to strike for one day over budget Posted: 31 Mar 2016 02:34 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of Chicago teachers plan to walk off the job for one day on Friday, shutting down schools in the nation's third-largest district in what could be an early glimpse of a more prolonged strike still to come.

Hundreds of thousands protest at French labor reforms Posted: 31 Mar 2016 10:39 AM PDT By Lucien Libert and Morade Azzouz PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of workers and high-school students joined protest marches across France on Wednesday to challenge plans to loosen the country's protective labor laws that unions say favor businesses. The day of protest -- which led to scores of arrests as youths and police clashed in Paris, Lyon and Nantes -- marked the fourth such test of strength in a month for President Francois Hollande. On Thursday, Reuters TV footage showed hooded youths in Paris jumping on cars, taunting police and throwing projectiles, prompting riot police to charge some groups.

How U.S. News Accounts for Test-Optional Colleges in Our Rankings Posted: 30 Mar 2016 01:49 PM PDT The methodology for the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings has long used entering students' test scores as one way of measuring how schools compare in terms of their students' academic prowess. This reflects the reality that a substantial majority of U.S. colleges and universities accept the ACT or SAT as an indicator of academic quality and require the scores for admissions decisions. There are other schools that do not use ACT or SAT scores in their admissions process at all.

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