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As schools crack down on grade inflation, parent expectations for grades should change, too

  "arrow" by flickr user alan berning, cc license Vox recently covered the results of Wellesley College's crack down on grade inflation. It turns out that when colleges suppress grade inflation, some interesting things happen.

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