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'''Grade inflation''' is the term used to describe the increasingly lenient marking of student examinations to compensate for the falling standards of public/state education brought about by [[liberal]] educational schemes. For example, eight out of ten Harvard students graduate with honors and almost half get A's in their courses.<ref>''[http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002/02/08/edtwof2.htm Ivy League grade inflation]'', USA Today, February 7, 2002.</ref>  One professor admitted that he gave no student a grade lower than B, and that if he did, his teaching career would suffer because no student would want to take his class.  Students in high school are also getting higher grades, even as objective measures of student performance, such as standardized test scores, continue to fall.<ref>Bruce Bartlett, ''[http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2003/01/30/the_truth_about_grade_inflation The truth about grade inflation]'',  Townhall.com, January 30, 2003.</ref>

'''Grade inflation''' is the term used to describe the increasingly lenient marking of student examinations to compensate for the falling standards of public/state education brought about by [[liberal]] educational schemes. For example, almost half of Harvard students get A's in their courses.<ref>''[http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002/02/08/edtwof2.htm Ivy League grade inflation]'', USA Today, February 7, 2002.</ref>  One professor admitted that he gave no student a grade lower than B, and that if he did, his teaching career would suffer because no student would want to take his class.  Students in high school are also getting higher grades, even as objective measures of student performance, such as standardized test scores, continue to fall.<ref>Bruce Bartlett, ''[http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2003/01/30/the_truth_about_grade_inflation The truth about grade inflation]'',  Townhall.com, January 30, 2003.</ref>

 

Grade inflation continues in a [[vicious cycle]], as students whose professors award lower, non-inflated grades are judged worse than those who have received higher, inflated grades.  For example, one administrator at the [[North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics]] reminded a teacher that they want to give "grades colleges can look at". <ref>"[http://www.johnlocke.org/acrobat/pope_articles/inquiry19-ncssm.pdf Tuition Waivers at the N.C. School of Science and Math]", Pope Center for Higher Education Policy</ref>

== Grade inflation in the United Kingdom ==

== Grade inflation in the United Kingdom ==