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One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. But it’s not because they are all working harder. The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.

A Crisis Brewing in the Classrooms 05 September 2008 By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer When economics student Mikhail Popov struggled with a final exam at a regional university, he was offered an alternative — pay $200 and get a good grade. "I wasn't sure of how well I would do, so I agreed in order to avoid any problems," Popov said. It is a common practice at his university, he said: "A lot of people do it — the majority." Once the pride of the Soviet system, the education system helped unite the population, giving millions a similar start...

<p>Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante got credit but did not have to attend a basic speech class at Fresno State in the late 1990s because a professor decided in 15 minutes or less that the Fresno Democrat would have earned at least a C based on his public utterances.</p>