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'A' Is for...(Ivy Leagues schools inflate student grades)(Brief Article)
Anything goes? For more than a decade, Ivy League colleges have been handing out superior grades for less than stellar performances. That's partly America's cult of self-esteem, where criticism is deemed harmful to a student's fragile ego. But mostly it's a response to stressed-out pupils determined to win admission to top Wall Street firms and law schools. So what's the report card on grade inflation? "A failure of honesty," ...
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