What's all the fuss about
grade inflation? Do you always earn the grades you receive? Working
from your own experience, but also taking into account the points of view
expressed in some of the online sources below, write an argument either for
or against a "return to academic standards." Be sure to define
"academic standards" at the outset. Society
for a Return to Academic Standards Highly partisan but interesting
collection of material on grade inflation and the impact of student evaluations
on teachers. Site is compiled by a faculty member in the Department of Accounting
at Louisiana State University. Clear
Evidence of High School Grade Inflation Article from Sept. 1998 available
online at the National Center for Policy Analysis's "Idea House."
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