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noun
A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: education
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