more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The … adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges adopt a less demanding curriculum in order to accommodate the influx … of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of …

research conducted in a prestigious faculty of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, on a number of graduate students … information from students' essays was supplemented by observations made by the teachers group - authors of the work. Research …