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[quote=Anonymous]Yet another reason why it's important to do a holistic approach than just look at scores. Many of the scores are inflated.

"Those enrolled in private and suburban public high schools are being awarded higher grades—critical in the competition for college admission—than their urban public school counterparts with no less talent or potential, new research shows. . . . These findings are troubling, but not surprising, said Richard Weissbourd, the director of the Human Development and Psychology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 'To be attractive to parents,” private schools in particular, Weissbourd said, “need to be able to tout how many of their students went to selective colleges. So they’re incentivized to give better grades.' The same concern about college admission drives parents of students in suburban schools to pressure principals and teachers, he said. 'It becomes very high maintenance for schools to deal with aggressive parents. So that can also push grades up.'"

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/suburban-grade-inflation/536595/[/quote]

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