Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Grade Inflation from Sanctioned Cheating

Oh those British...

Try the numbers HERE for an increase in grades over the years in England

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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'harvard grade inflation boston globe'. (0.24 seconds)

The Chronicle: 4/6/2001: Grade Inflation: It's Time to Face the FactsWhen I was interviewed by The Boston Globe about my two-grade policy, one cause of grade inflation that I cited provoked a fiercely defensive reaction from ...
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The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Faculty Tries To Combat Grade InflationThe effort to curb grade inflation gained sweeping momentum this past November, a month after a feature in the Boston Globe called Harvard’s grading ...
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CNN.com - Grade inflation spurs Harvard changes - April 19, 2002The Globe report on grade inflation led new Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers to asked faculty members last fall to review their grading standards. ...
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Grade inflation scrutinized at Harvard and elsewhere | Academe ...Although Harvard has been a center of attention over grade inflation ... he revealed in a series of Boston Globe articles that 91 percent of Harvard seniors ...
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LESSONS; Doubling of A's at Harvard: Grade Inflation or Brains ...A HARVARD UNIVERSITY report last spring complained of grade inflation that ... report in The Boston Globe in October disclosing that 91 percent of Harvard ...
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HARVARD'S QUIET SECRET: RAMPANT GRADE INFLATION | Article from The ...HARVARD'S QUIET SECRET: RAMPANT GRADE INFLATION ...find The Boston Globe articles. ... challenge at Harvard University: a senior honors thesis about Ab...
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Trends in Postsecondary Education - There Are No Average Students ...Bharucha was speaking to a reporter for The Boston Globe for a two-part story on decades of grade inflation at Harvard. The graph shows data compiled by the ...
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HARVARD'S QUIET SECRET: RAMPANT GRADE INFLATION - The Boston Globe ...Rampant Grade Inflation Seen at Harvard, Other Institutions. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 2/6/2001; 962 words; By Patrick Healy, The Boston Globe ...
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The Dangerous Myth of Grade InflationIt is largely accepted on faith that grade inflation -- an upward shift in .... about grade inflation, as can be witnessed when deans at Harvard plead nolo ...
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