Sentences with phrase «grade inflation taking»

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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.

These include the ethics of grade inflation, lottery - based school assignment policies, disciplining socially fragile children, and charter school expansion policies that take attrition rates and school demographics into account.

It's a lot harder to know how much learning is taking place, especially in an age when grade inflation is rampant.

The authors detailed analysis concluded that no such grade inflation has taken place, at least in mathematics, over the study period.

Over-reliance on grades to assess progress and grade inflation are issues that take up too much of educators» time.

At least 34 states will devote less on kindergarten through 12th grade on a per - pupil basis during the current school year than in 2008, once inflation is taken into account, according to a report released today by the Washington - based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which tracks the impact of government decisions on those with low incomes.