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Michael Zwaagstra: ‘Grade Inflation’ Gives Students False Sense of Their Academic Abilities

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Michael Zwaagstra: ‘Grade Inflation’ Gives Students False Sense of Their Academic Abilities
Parents pick up their children as they are dismissed from a school in Mississauga, Ont., on Nov. 22, 2021. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
Michael Zwaagstra
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Suppose you’re scheduled for major heart surgery. Shortly before your surgery begins, you check into your surgeon’s background and are pleased to discover your surgeon had a 100 percent average throughout medical school. But then you learn that every student at the same medical school received 100 percent in their courses, too. Now, you probably don’t feel quite as confident in your surgeon.

Michael Zwaagstra
Michael Zwaagstra
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Michael Zwaagstra is a public high school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is the author of “A Sage on the Stage: Common Sense Reflections on Teaching and Learning.”