Grade Inflation Is Serious

The Education Department stated 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’s one that doesn’t appear to have any political valence, no right or left orientation. The problem is grade inflation in higher education.