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- Maasai Girls Education Fund
- The Fund encourages the education of Maasai girls in Kenya by covering all costs of education including boarding, travel, and books.
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- Multicultural Education Pavilion
- Provides educators, students, and activists resources and dialogues on equity, social justice, and multicultural education.
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- National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Sciences
- GEM is a network of universities, companies, government agencies, alumni and faculty working to together to provide graduate education in engineering and science to underrepresented minority students.
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- Teaching Tolerance
- Serves as a clearinghouse of information about anti-bias programs and activities being implemented in schools across the country.
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- The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
- Private non-profit corporation developing school programs that provide equal learning opportunities for students of diverse backgrounds. Provides desegregation assistance and other services to school districts in DE, MD, PA, VA, WV, and DC.
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- Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network
- WEPAN is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1990 to be a catalyst for change to enhance the success of women in the engineering professions.
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- The Curse of the Easy A
- A brief essay on the damage that grade inflation or making a class too easy can create.
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- The Christian Science Monitor: Grade Inflation Is Not a Victimless Crime
- Explains that students need an accurate synopsis of their performance. (May 04, 2004)
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- NPR Talk of the Nation : Grade Inflation
- The faculty at Princeton University recently decided to limit the number of 'A' grades. Join NPR's Neal Conan and guests to discuss grade inflation and possible remedies to it. [32:49 streaming audio broadcast] (May 04, 2004)
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- NPR : Princeton Takes Steps to Fight 'Grade Inflation'
- NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on how Princeton University is taking steps to reverse the trend of so-called grade inflation. [3:41 streaming audio broadcast] (April 28, 2004)
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- NPR : Harvard Grade Inflation
- Student's grades at Harvard University have soared in the last 10 years. According to a report issued Tuesday by the dean of undergraduate education, nearly half of the grades issued last year were A's or A-minuses. Linda Wertheimer talks with Susan Pedersen, Dean of Undergraduate Education and a Professor of History at Harvard University, about grade inflation. [4:39 streaming audio broadcast] (November 21, 2001)
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- Fiscal Policy Effects on Grade Inflation
- Written by Richard Barndt on fiscal and budgetary causes. (July 06, 2001)
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- Jacksonville.com: Thousands of Students Victims of 'Grade Inflation'
- Covers experiences of change in the expectations of students. (June 22, 1997)
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- Grade Inflation: The Current Fraud
- Study by M. Thomas and William Bainbridge finds prevalent inflation in poor performing schools. (February 01, 1997)
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- Barksdale Reading Institute
- Designed to dramatically improve the reading skills of children through a systematic and direct implementation of a research-based reading reform model.
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- Literacy Online
- University of Pennsylvania site concerning literacy for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide.
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- Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF)
- America's largest non-profit children's and family literacy organization.