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It's bad writing.  It's always been bad writing.  With the Common Core Standards designed to shift the way we teach students to think, read, and write, this outdated writing tradition must end.  If you're teaching it--stop it.  If your son, daughter, niece, or nephew (or a young person you care about) is learning it--prepare to engage with the teacher to end  it.

took a rare stance against grade inflation in 2004, and publicly announced a policy designed to curb it. The policy states that A's should account for less than 35 percent of the grades for undergraduate courses and less than 55 percent of grades for junior and senior independent work

To date, the administration has not taken steps to strictly enforce these guidelines, instead opting to rely on departments to apply them

nearly constant in the Natural Science departments, which were typically at or near the 35% guideline

Matthew Wicks, who runs a Chicago-area consulting firm specializing in helping schools and districts tap into the potential of online learning.

He was a co-founder of the Illinois Virtual High School.

"Understanding why you're creating the online school is really, really important