{"id":3724,"date":"2012-06-26T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/long-beach-city-college-tries-an-alternative-to-placement-tests-los-angeles-times\/"},"modified":"2012-07-03T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:44:15","slug":"highschoolgpabarometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/gpa-news\/highschoolgpabarometer.html","title":{"rendered":"High School GPA Barometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach City College tries an alternative to placement tests as a means to predict student performance in college.<br \/>\nResearch by Scott-Clayton and others indicates that the placement tests are a poor predictor of how students will perform in college classes and that high school grade point averages can be a better barometer. Scott-Clayton said that the &#8230;<br \/>\nGPA Education News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-college-remedial-20120625,0,6876733.story\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Education Resource: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinejobapplicationform.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Education News Summer Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Education Resource: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freeresumes.net\/student-resume\n\" target=\"_blank\">Education News Student Resume Samples<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach City College tries an alternative to placement tests as a means to predict student performance in college. Research by Scott-Clayton and others indicates that the placement tests are a poor predictor of how students will perform in college classes and that high school grade point averages can be a better barometer. Scott-Clayton said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/gpa-news\/highschoolgpabarometer.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High School GPA Barometer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[539,362,36],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpa-news","tag-high-school-gpa","tag-long-beach-city-college","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}