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HarryHirsch
on June 4, 2017
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On average, skipping college and investing tuition...
More important: if tuition were free you could fail your students. With the present model there is a perverse incentive to pass everyone no matter what because they pay the salary.
mrep
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Maybe for ivy league schools but there are lots of others that do not grade inflate [1].
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grade-inflation-colleges-with-th...
tnecniv
on June 5, 2017
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The other factor being that colleges want to boast about their 99% four year graduation rate.
linkregister
on June 5, 2017
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This is an interesting hypothesis. Do you have any information to indicate it is a trend?
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