and now for more on our top story today. students have received another set of record grades in a year of covid disruption to exams in england, wales and northern ireland. the government cancelled exams for a second consecutive year, meaning pupils grades are based on their teachersjudgment. top grades, seven or above, teachersjudgment. top grades, seven orabove, rose teachersjudgment. top grades, seven or above, rose 2.7 percentage points to 28.9%, while those graded four and above, seen as good passes, rose zero .8 points, to 78.3%. this is a smaller rise than in 2020, the first time teacher grades were used. last year, top grades rose by nine percentage point and good passes were up 5.4 points. the grades, calculate it by teachers, have been taken from a combination of mock exams, coursework, and tests. speaking from a school in swindon,
wouldn t have exactly that was a slight misquote. so i think that no so just bad? they re just bad. not abysmal across the board. certainly very bad and something to be concerned about. i want to give our viewers a look at a sample question. it asked test takers to write the temperature the arrow is pointing to at the thermostat. the correct answer was a range between 77.7 and 78.3. pretty straightforward, right? i don t understand how this could be so wrong according to test takers. are there any other questions that seemed really straightforward that they completely missed and it has you scratching your head? well you have to understand too, that this is a good question to select because this is a number question. we did give results for all three scales literacy numeracy, and technology. it was in numeracy that we performed the poorest and where it was sometimes the most concern. also, it was a concern to us
street. 78.3 grams. tonight s raid was a big win for the franklin county narcotics enforcement unit. but the battle is far from over. i never had nothing. don t lie. swear to god. don t lie. lightning will strike you. it seems like for every one we catch there s ten more they ve taught how to cook, smuggle or use. we re asking simple questions and we re getting jerked around. i look at what we re doing as we re holding the line. if it wasn t for us, they would take over the county in a short period of time. we re fighting for normal, everyday people that don t make meth, that hopefully sleep better at night in their beds because we do the things that we do.
subsisting on poverty wages, multiple jobs and living without health insurance. retirement savings or job security. 78.3% is how much of all instructional faculty in 1969 was tenured or in track positions. while only 33.5% were tenured or in tenured track positions in 2009. 66.5% of faculty ineligible for tenure at all. tenure is not a lifetime guarantee of employment in the face of mediocrity. it ensures due process, a vote in how your institution is governed and the freedom and responsibility to pursue research. it is the foundational core of american higher education. but as colleges rely on aject professors this is eroded. 75.5% of faculty members and instructors are in contingent positions off the tenure track. and 54% of contingent faculty
sentiment. it has risen to the highest level in four months. what s behind all of this? three main reasons what s behind this huge rise that really has to do with the rising property values, stock prices going up, and the stabilization of gas prices. remember, back in during labor day gas prices were in flux, now they re starting to stabilize. consumers are starting to realize maybe the economy is starting to straighten out a little bit more. consumer sentiment, the university of michigan sentiment index came in at 78.3, that was up from 74.3, from last month. but there still is this fragile recovery to the economy. gdp numbers, it s growing at a slow rate of 1.3%. and the main reason why, alex, is because of the drought from last summer. right. we knew that was going to stick around. we were in real trouble with that. what about the mix of news regarding new home construction and sales? some of these sales numbers were actually lower than they expected. they came in about 0.3% l