Grade Inflation

What is Grade Inflation?

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(n.) What goes on at Harvard. See Harvard.

A Harvard University report last spring complained of grade inflation that makes it easier to get high grades. Now the academic dean, Susan Pedersen, has released data showing that 49 percent of undergraduate grades were A's in 2001, up considerably from 23 percent in 1986.
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