This has been an ongoing story in Britain over the last few weeks and may have reached a resolution. With everything shut down, high-stakes exams were not held, so authorities decided to predict the results, based on teachers' projected final scores, and on the students' schools historic performance. The results were, um, predictable. "High-achieving students at under-performing schools, many in deprived areas, saw their marks downgraded.... to deprive thousands of graduating high school students — especially more disadvantaged ones — of places at universities." This policy has been reversed, and indeed, should never have been implemented in the first place.
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