A History Of College Grade Inflation

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A History of College Grade Inflation Summary
This is a summary of Catherine Rampell's essay "A History of College Inflation." Previously Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy conducted a study of college grading over the years. Here recently, they have collected some new data results on college inflation.
They did their research using the grades of over two hundred 4 year colleges and universities and proved that between 1940 and 2008 the amount of A's that students were receiving has increased tremendously.
Catherine Rampell states that students attending private schools are receiving A's more so than public schools. In the beginning public and private schools curves were a lot alike, but the overtime private school made it easier for

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