Grade inflation has so devalued college degrees that employers find college transcripts to be virtually meaningless signifiers of academic achievement. To restore academic integrity, Texas needs to mandate transcript transparency.
Brandeis Is Doing Something About Grade Inflation. Will Texas Be Next?
This is a good-news, bad-news tale for American higher education. The good news: A top-tier university has finally taken serious aim at the epidemic of grade hyperinflation. The bad news: We have fallen so far that even elite institutions must now devise entirely new, parallel evaluation systems just to deliver what straightforward, principled grading should...