Their Global Risk Assessment Indicator (GRAI) shows strong convinction for a broad market decline in the days ahead.

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Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.

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Although consumer confidence is a lagging indicator, the low reading did not surprise me, and I believe is an accurate assessment of the collective mindsets of consumers at present, given all of the volatility that we saw in the stock market during the month of August.

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There was to have been an indicator grading schools from A to E on how much academic progress pupils had made between their pupils' assessment test results at the age of 14 and their GCSEs.

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