Sentences with phrase «from grade inflation»

The narcissism epidemic is the common denominator underneath many contemporary trends — from grade inflation, to the crass and aggressive tone of so much entertainment, to birthday gifts for high school girls that stupefy the imagination.

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If this situation requires «hucksterism» to attract enrollees, and if it means grade inflation to keep them from flunking out of school, there are certainly those who will resort to such means.

Further, though widespread cheating, self - serving grade inflation, theft of books, reneging on debts for educational loans, plagiarism and hucksterism are all too widespread, they are far from universal.

Rampant grade inflation in recent years has allowed poorly prepared students to graduate not just from high schools but also from colleges.

In the study the advocacy group moved from our nation's ongoing discussion of grade inflation at our colleges and universities to a specific look at grade inflation at our teachers» colleges.

Results from the General Certificate of Secondary Education exam that students take at age 16 show improvement each year, but there is a general recognition that grade inflation makes the progress illusory.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Due to pressures from exam regulator Ofqual, harsher grading was used for this year's GCSE results as a way to curb «grade inflation» following criticism over some subjects» past papers.

Correspondence between Ofqual and the boards shows that the exam boards were under pressure from Ofqual to guard against grade inflation.

A recent report from the College Board investigates two key issues: grade inflation, in which teachers over time assign increasingly higher grades for a given level of achievement; and grade nonequivalence across schools, in which teachers in different schools apply different grading standards for the same curricular material.

They have shown interest in funds that potentially provide some income or protection from inflation, and investment grade credit, emerging market debt and TIPS benefited from that.

As inflation was tamed and interest rates descended from an eye - popping 15.8 % in 1981, the value of high - yielding investment - grade bonds increased dramatically.

The Fund pursues its investment objective by investing primarily in fixed income securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds, notes and bills, Treasury inflation - protected securities, U.S. Treasury Strips, U.S. Government agency securities (primarily mortgage - backed securities), and investment grade corporate debt rated BBB or higher by Standard & Poor's Global Ratings or Baa or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or having an equivalent rating from another independent rating organization.

And while bond investors have suffered setbacks recently as yields have risen by more than a percentage point from their 2016 lows in part because of concerns that tax cuts and infrastructure spending in a Trump administration could spur inflation, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index — a good proxy for the investment - grade taxable bond market — is actually up almost 2 % from the beginning of the year.