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        In the article “Academic Inflation”, (2010) Sir Ken Robinson implies the importance of going the extra mile when aiming for a college degree because your standard bachelor's degree isn't going to cut it nowadays. He explains that 20 years ago a bachelor degree could get you a well paid and respectable vocation, but now day's there is an inflation of degree's and a bachelor degrees seems to be a dime a dozen. The purpose of his article is to inform his reader's how rigorous it is to obtain a respected job in today's workforce, not to discourage them but in order to encourage them to reach for an mba to set them aside from the inflation of bachelor degree's. His article is essentially targeting high school kids and people currently enrolled in college.


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"Academic inflation" The Problem of Academic Inflation.Web. 18 Apr. 2011. http://www.degreesinbusiness.org/resources/economy-education/Academic-Inflation.aspx.




In the article "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation", (2002) Alfie Kohn clarifies grade inflation has been going on since the 60's and 70's his definition of it is "upward shift in students' grade point averages without a similiar rise in achievement--exist, and that is a bad thing". Kohn supports his claims through credible information from researcher's gathering grade results from over 3,000 institutions in the past 30 years. The purpose of his article is to make fellow reader's understand that there has been an extreme lack of performance in classrooms but seemingly the grades are getting higher in order show them our college's curriculum's are softening and need to be reformed.
Kohn targets any person who is dubious about colleges.


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Kohn, Alfie. ""The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation"." "The Chronicle of Higher Education. N.p., 8 Nov. 2002. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. <http://www.jmu.edu/stem/outreach/documents/2002--Kohn--Dangerous%20Myth%20of%20Grade%20Inflation.pdf>.