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| | The Chronicle: 4/6/2001: Grade Inflation: It's Time to Face the Facts |
 | | Grade inflation compresses all grades at the top, making it difficult to discriminate the best from the very good, the very good from the good, the good from the mediocre. |
 | | Grade inflation has resulted from the emphasis in American education on the notion of self-esteem. |
 | | I said that when grade inflation got started, in the late 60's and early 70's, white professors, imbibing the spirit of affirmative action, stopped giving low or average grades to fl students and, to justify or conceal it, stopped giving those grades to white students as well. |
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