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</html><description>Last week Obama began to make threats regarding a new college ranking system and its connection to federal funding. Here&#x2019;s an excerpt of what he was talking about, from this WSJ article:  The president called for rating colleges before the 2015 school year on measures such as affordability and graduation rates&#x2014;&#x201D;metrics like how much debt does the average student leave with, how easy is it to pay off, how many students graduate on time, how well do those graduates do in the workforce,&#x201D; Mr. Obama told a crowd at the University at Buffalo, the first stop on a two-day bus tour.</description></oembed>

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