This might be the most important insight regarding the decline of public education. The consumer (parents) are watching grades as the Key Performance Indicator. So grade inflation is serving as an effective mask for school performance. The plummeting outcomes on standardized assessments should worry everyone as much as they concern the K-12 education community. But they won’t as long as report cards are full of A’s and B’s. @jillbarshay on the latest study sending the same signals about parent attitudes.