Grade Inflation Is Serious

The Education Dept. said at the end of September that the rate of A grades has reached ‘comical proportions.’ 

A student works on an assignment at a school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, in Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Commentary

One of the planks in the “compact” that the Trump administration has proposed to several colleges has to do with a problem that hasn’t received much attention in recent times, at least not in government circles. It addresses a problem that doesn’t appear to have any political valence, no right or left orientation. The problem is grade inflation in higher education.