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Direct linkField, Kelly – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
Three times during the past decade, the Pittsburgh campus of Kaplan Career Institute was named "school of the year" by Kaplan Higher Education, a for-profit higher-education company with more than 70 campuses nationwide. The award recognized the college for its rapid growth and high graduation and job-placement rates. But some former…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Private Colleges, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship
Download full textSraiheen, Abdulwahab; Lesisko, Lee James – Online Submission, 2006
School administrators in a small suburban school district in Southeastern Pennsylvania were concerned about grade inflation at the elementary and secondary levels. Specifically, they wanted to know if students in grades 5, 8, and 11 who scored at the basic or below basic performance level on the 2003-2004 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 5, Grade 11, Suburban Schools
Peer reviewedHelmreich, Jonathan E. – College and University, 1977
Based on questionnaire survey responses from 45 Pennsylvania and New England institutions, a significant increase in honors awards is discussed and related to the overall national grade inflation previously documented. (LBH)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Awards, Degrees (Academic), Educational Assessment
