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Boston Globe - Harvard's Quiet Secret: Rampant Grade Inflation - Rampant grade inflation has made Harvard's top prize for students - graduating with honors - virtually meaningless.
www.boston.com/globe/metro/packages/harvard_honors
Changes in High School Grading Standards in Mathematics, 1982-1992 - A RAND corporation research report which is free to download. Concludes that grade inflation did not occur over the decade covered by the report.
www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1445
Fiscal Policy Effects on Grade Inflation - Article with references stating that grade inflation exists and one of its causes is fiscal and budgetary policy, specifically, enrollment-based funding formulas as a means of allocating funds for higher education.
www.newfoundations.com/Policy/Barndt.html
Grade Inflation and Corporatism - Questions the assertions that schools are catering to students as "consumers" and trying too hard to please them to keep their business.
complit.rutgers.edu/palinurus
Grade Inflation: The Current Fraud - Study finds that grade inflation is most prevalent at at the poorest performing schools.
schoolmatch.com/articles/ESRJAN97.htm
Jacksonville.com: Thousands of students victims of 'grade inflation' - One school's experience with changing grading schemes and increasing expectations of students.
schoolmatch.com/audit/jacksonville/articles/gradezz.htm
NYTimes.com - Harvard Committee Works to Restore the Honor of the B Plus - Addresses grade inflation issues at Harvard over the years. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view]
www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/education/21GRAD.html
NYTimes.com - Harvard Faculty Votes to Put the Excellence Back in the A - Harvard is switching to a new grade scale as well as limiting the number of students which can graduate with honors, both in response to the general trend of grade inflation on campus. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.]
www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/education/22HARV.html
The Chronicle of Higher Education - Can Untenured Faculty Members Stop Grade Inflation? - A former teaching fellow at Harvard reveals some of the pressures on nontenured professors to give good grades.
chronicle.com/jobs/2001/12/2001121301c.htm
The Chronicle of Higher Education - Grade Inflation: It's Time to Face the Facts - Harvard professor discusses the issue at his school and in his classes.
chronicle.com/free/v47/i30/30b02401.htm
The Chronicle: Colloquy: Grade inflation? - Government scholarships or tax breaks on tuition that are contingent on students' achieving certain grade-point averages may be responsible for unintended grade inflation on college campuses.
chronicle.com/colloquy/97/inflation/inflation.htm
The Guardian - Inquiry into exam grade inflation claims - Claims have been made that the passing scores for GSCE maths have been systematically reduced to give better results.
education.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4248272,00.html