At high schools across the country, more and more students are graduating with grade-point averages of A, including some whose averages are well above the traditional 4.0 for an A.
Grades -- some weighted with extra points or fractions of points for taking harder courses -- are getting so high that a solid B is becoming the new C, which years ago was considered average.
Consider these examples:
A college freshman survey -- released in April by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA -- said that the trend of grade inflation has continued "unabated" since 1987, noting that nearly half of freshmen reported high school grade point averages of A- or higher in 2006, compared with 19.4 percent in 1966.
A report on members of the Class of 2006 who took the SAT college entrance exam noted that grades have gone up even though SAT scores haven't increased as much or have even dropped.
And a study of high school transcripts and the National Assessment of Educational Progress -- known as the Nation's Report Card -- shows grades have risen without a similar boost in national test scores.
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