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...Dean’s List went from 20 percent to 40 percent from 1920 to 1960—a doubling. But then there was another doubling from 1960 to 1970—only 10 years! And instead of falling, grades remained high and are still going higher. Lewis??s attempt to reduce this pattern to an average rise over the whole period from 1920 is laughably misleading...
...reiterate that I do not have a “racial theory of grade inflation,” and frankly I am getting tired of Lewis??s indignant attempts to brand me, and get me stomped on, as “divisive.” The difficulty is with the teachers, and with a don’t-care administration, not with the students...