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Download full textWalsh, Patrick – Education Working Paper Archive, 2010
This paper considers whether high schools in competitive environments use grade inflation to attract and retain families, perhaps in addition to more constructive responses. Two measures of grade inflation are used: the cutoffs used by each school to assign a letter grade to a percent score; and high school GPA after controlling for test scores, a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Competition, Grade Inflation, Student Recruitment
