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Report cards for California’s students reveal a major crisis in education.

Not because the grades are too low. Rather, because they are too high.

Grade inflation is rampant in the Golden State, where the number of students receiving straight A’s is going up, even as reading and math test scores are plunging.

The number of applicants to University of California schools with perfect 4.0 GPAs has doubled.

Meanwhile, on campus, professors complain that students can’t handle basic skills.

One UC Berkeley professor recently said that she had to teach fractions — a fifth-grade skill — to students at California’s top public university.

Grade inflation used to be a problem that only elite colleges faced.

It began in the Vietnam War era, when professors understood that giving poor grades to students could see them leave school and enter the military draft.

Grade inflation persisted, for economic reasons.........

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