One in five GCSEs taken this year scored an A or A*, according to record results published today as more 670, 000 pupils in England and Wales received their results.
If Guldahl's decline was neither so dramatic as popularly believed, nor so clearly attributable to Groove Your Golf, then what was it that made him bow out of his professional career in 1942?
At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set.
If candidates fail to state clearly results of all subjects obtained in the public examinations or fail to provide the supporting documents as requested, their applications will not be considered.
A process, partially based on academic merit, which does not predict academic potential equally for both boys and girls would itself be discriminatory.
Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as sensitivity and sympathy.
Ripley indulges a popular obsession with international test score comparisons, which show wide and frightening gaps between the United States and other countries.