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By Robert Kennedy, About.com Guide to Private Schools since 1997

The Most Common Grade Scale

Thursday February 9, 2006
Letter grades have been around since 1897. A to F Scale Gets Poor Marks but Is Likely to Stay, by Washington Post writer Jay Matthews, offers a brief history of the grading scales in use in secondary and tertiary institutions here in the United States. It makes fascinating reading.

When Rites Become Wrongs An interview with hazing authority Hank Nuwer.

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