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Grade Inflation

Posted on May 8, 2006 by Dana

If you are one of those teacher-y types who doesn’t always check my education blog, you might be interested in looking just this once.  I co-wrote a post with a New Hampshire student who commented on that blog, and I am very pleased with the results.

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