Law Practice,
Education Law,
State Bar & Bar Associations
Jul. 17, 2018
Let’s stop grade inflation in higher education
Grade inflation in higher education is difficult to discuss. Students want to be positioned favorably in the job market. I wonder, however, if we teachers are doing them a service by adjusting the curve upward as if it could be done ad infinitum.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
Grade inflation in higher education is difficult to discuss. Students want to be positioned favorably in the job market. They want to believe teachers will do everything they can to help the next generation, in a period of increasing anxiety in America about whether it is possible to do better than one's parents. I am on the side of students. I wonder, however, if we teachers are doing them a service by adjusting the curve upward as if it could be done ad infinitum.
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