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The most common grade at Harvard, for example, is a straight A, according to its student newspaper. The distortion has the potential to make high marks mean less, give bad information to degree programs and employers on student performance, and distort how people choose their majors. Those concerns prompted three professors at Wellesley College, a private women’s college near Boston, to study the effects of capping grade inflation for most classes at the school in a paper recently published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
The policy led to a significant reduction in the typical gap in grades between science and math majors and those in the humanities and social sciences. My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor - Joseph Williams. After veteran reporter Joseph Williams lost his job, he found employment in a sporting-goods store.
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Instead, find sneaky ways to leave your children alone with books—and then see what happens. As the school year ends, students’ thoughts turn to summer vacation staples like swimming, camp, and popsicles. Teachers—and most parents—would like them to think about reading, too. School and district officials offer summer reading lists, hoping that specific recommendations will move students away from video games and toward books. Punching Gloria Steinem: inside the bizarre world of anti-feminist women. Every so often, one woman engages with me on Twitter who is against women's suffrage.
That's right - she believes women shouldn't have the right to vote. I always hoped it was a fake account, but no - this anti-suffrage enthusiast runs a blog where she writes about religion alongside recipes. It seems the only thing we have in common is a love of beets. When men are against feminism, it's frustrating, if ultimately predictable - groups with power have always been loathe to give it up. But when women come out against gender justice, it feels worse: no matter how fringe, the rise of the anti-feminist woman is not just baffling but a betrayal.
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I want that to be Lucky,” Eva Chen, the recently installed editor-in-chief, says of her vision for the publication. “I want it to be the approachable, cool fashion magazine.” Chen’s appointment, announced in mid-June, marks the quick ascension of a newcomer to the editor-in-chief ranks. Indeed, Chen, 33, is the youngest editor-in-chief at a major American fashion magazine by more than a decade and the first digital native to rise to the position. Chen has upwards of 50,000 Twitter followers, 59,000 Instagram followers, and Tumblr posts that regularly receive hundreds of notes. We are losing the art of reading. ‘Although we love to argue about books, acquire them, express strong opinions about them, etc, etc, more than ever we seem to be losing the knack of reading them.’ Photograph: CBW /Alamy It has already been quite a year for lovers of book-blah.
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