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Fighting Grade Inflation through Transcript Transparency

May 21, 2013

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Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D.

@TomLindsayTX

Tom K. Lindsay, Ph.D., is a distinguished senior fellow for Next Generation Texas at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He has more than two decades’ experience in education management and instruction, including service as a dean, provost, and college president.

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