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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grade inflation has reached the point where nearly 60% of students at most "competitive" high schools across the country apply in the fall and winter of their senior year with "an A average", which is more than 3x what that %age was 30 years ago when test scores (adjusted for re-centering) were essentially the same. How has classroom performance increased so dramatically without a reasonably corresponding increase in test scores?[/quote] Whenever I make this point, the TO proponents attack. Apparently, kids that are “poor test takers” only do poorly on the SAT/ACT. They do just fine on all the tests at school to earn the As that get them at 4.5 GPA. It has nothing to do with test re-takes, equitable grading, lack of deadlines for homework, etc. [/quote] YUP.[/quote]
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