“The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.”

—  Jon Appleton

"The Decline of Academic Freedom at Dartmouth College", 20 October 2005.
Letter published in "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth", 2005

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