The following is a transcript of the speech opening the Western Civilization Summit on June 8, 2015, at the Texas Public Policy Foundation Headquarters.
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...