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Grade Inflation

Student taking standardized test. | ID 145463803 © Esin Deniz | Dreamstime.com; Illustration: Lex Villena

Education

ACT Scores Are Down. Grades Are Up. Something's Fishy.

Grade inflation is making test-optional college admissions unworkable.

Emma Camp | 10.7.2024 3:16 PM

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College

UT Austin Brings Back the SAT After Scoreless Kids Underperform

The college is the latest in a spate of schools reinstating SAT and ACT test requirements.

Emma Camp | 3.13.2024 3:31 PM

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Higher Education

Could Elite Colleges Embrace the SAT Again?

There's increasing evidence that standardized tests accurately measure student achievement and are helpful, not hurtful, to disadvantaged applicants. 

Emma Camp | 1.8.2024 3:15 PM

Test marked with an A grade. | Illustration: Lex Villena; Wisconsin Art

Education

Los Angeles Public Schools Are Increasingly Passing Students Who Don't Meet Grade-Level Standards

The issue is the result of a districtwide policy of de facto grade inflation.

Emma Camp | 1.11.2023 1:45 PM

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College Admissions

Make School Hard Again

Grade inflation needs to stop.

John V.C. Nye | 5.26.2019 6:00 AM

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