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  2. This means that where college graduates could once expect to live about two years longer than non-college graduates, they’re now unlikely to face their mortality for an additional eight years.

  3. The Closing of the American Mind - Wikipedia

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    The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.

  4. My child failed his first year of college. We're not sure ...

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    After his first two semesters of college, my son is on academic suspension. Right now, he's working in a bakery while he decides what he want to do next. We're not sure if he'll return to school ...

  5. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The top grade, A, is given here for performance that exceeds the mean by more than 1.5 standard deviations, a B for performance between 0.5 and 1.5 standard deviations above the mean, and so on. [17] Regardless of the absolute performance of the students, the best score in the group receives a top grade and the worst score receives a failing grade.

  6. How One Failed College Assignment Started It All

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  7. Higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A US Department of Education longitudinal survey of 15,000 high school students in 2002 and 2012, found that 84% of the 27-year-old students had some college education, but only 34% achieved a bachelor's degree or higher; 79% owe some money for college and 55% owe more than $10,000; college dropouts were three times more likely to be unemployed ...

  8. America Again - Wikipedia

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    America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't is a 2012 satirical book written by Stephen Colbert and other writers of The Colbert Report as a follow-up to 2007's I Am America (And So Can You!). It is published by Grand Central Publishing. The book was released on October 2, 2012.

  9. 'Corporate America wants you to fail': This 'anti-career ...

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    Even when you can show that you exceeded expectations, “corporate America is still, like, ‘No, you didn’t,’” she said. “There is no incentive for hard work.” No financial incentive