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The Rise of Grade Inflation

The growing number of high marks has many professors—and some students—worried academic excellence is being cheapened. Has Dartmouth reached a breaking point?

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Readers React: Nov./Dec. 2026

The AI Revolution Thank you for the recent article on artificial intelligence [“The Revolution Is Here,” September/October]. AI represents not an explosion of knowledge but an explosion of access to
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