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  2. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The top grade, A, is given here for performance that exceeds the mean by more than 1.5 standard deviations, a B for performance between 0.5 and 1.5 standard deviations above the mean, and so on. [17] Regardless of the absolute performance of the students, the best score in the group receives a top grade and the worst score receives a failing grade.

  3. Grade inflation - Wikipedia

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    At Saint Anselm, the top 25% of the class has a 3.1 GPA; the median grade at the college is around a 2.50 GPA. Some professors and administrators believe that inflating grades makes it harder for students to realize their academic strengths and weaknesses and may encourage students to take classes based on grade expectation.

  4. Dropping out - Wikipedia

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    The consequences of dropping out of school can have long-term economic and social repercussions. Students who drop out of school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless, receiving welfare and incarcerated. [5] A four-year study in San Francisco found that 94 percent of young murder victims were high school dropouts. [6]

  5. Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Data in the last twenty years shows the general trend of girls outperforming boys in academic achievement in terms of class grades across all subjects and college graduation rates, but boys scoring higher on standardized tests and being better represented in the higher-paying and more prestigious job fields such as STEM (science, technology ...

  6. 5 Ways to Avoid Debt if You Are Dropping Out of College

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    You’ve read the stories about college dropouts who ended up becoming wildly successful people — you know, people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. If you took out student loans to finance ...

  7. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education - Wikipedia

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    In-person classes reopened on 5 November 2021, in low-risk areas for colleges and universities, with a 50% class size limit. A trial for in-person classes for elementary and high schools began on 15 November 2021 for 100 public schools. Schools and universities had been fully reopened in all in-person classes since 2 November 2022.

  8. Abcarian: Is your kid getting bad grades in math? I found a ...

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    The next year, in seventh grade, she again struggled with low grades in math. I conferred frequently with her teacher. She did after-school “interventions” in the library. Things didn’t improve.

  9. Those aren't Trump's grades from Fordham. Image in ... - AOL

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    “So when he went to Fordham, this was his grades,” the woman in the video says at one point. The report card shows three Cs, one D and one F. On-screen text reads: "Trump's Grades 1.28 GPA."