With the crisis in learning standards, Texas should strengthen the learning-outcomes component of its definition of student success. Students deserve both a timely path to graduation and a degree that signifies genuine progress in learning.
Higher Education
College Grade Inflation Undermines Workforce Competitiveness
For years, I’ve warned that college grade inflation is real, rampant, and ravaging a university near you. It is a cancer eating away at American higher education, undermining academic standards, devaluing transcripts, and cheating students and employers alike. My research has tracked this crisis over the last decade, and the evidence is stark: what was...
March 10, 2025