Fraud in Academia
by Walter E. Williams
Soon college students will come home and present parents with their grades. To avoid delusion, parents should do some serious discounting because of rampant grade inflation. If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.
Writing for the National Association of Scholars, Professor Thomas C. Reeves documents what is no less than academic fraud in his article "The Happy Classroom: Grade Inflation Works." Fro ...
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Posted by: Shirley Slaughter
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Thu May 7, 2009 12:47 PM
Your opinion in the Oakland Press on May 4, 2009 was right on the money. We have lost our moral values. It explains why my granddaughter does not know how to apologize when she does something wrong and over the top. She has been turned against her father (my son) by her mother who never apologized for her bad behavior. My granddaughter used foul language in her text messages to her father and we had to stop communicating with her. We are devastated because she has gone way past the boundaries that exist between a child and an adult. And so you hit upon a timely topic and it needs to be talked about much more. Its scary to think that she does not know any better.
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Posted by: Paul M. Petkovsek
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Wed May 6, 2009 12:05 PM
I would like to ask about this statement from your article: "At Brown University, two-thirds of all letter grades given are A's. At Harvard, 50 percent of all grades were either A or A- " Were those undergraduate grades? If the statistics included grades of students in masters and doctorial programs, it is easy to understand so many high grades. Graduate students typically make As or Bs. If all of the grades were undergraduate grades, then it sure does seem to be an unusually high number of As.
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Posted by: bill harding
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Wed May 6, 2009 6:46 AM
You hit the nail on the head with this one.What is even worse, is the attitude these kids have when they come out of college. The world owes them nothing and they are qualified to do nothing yet, they think $70,000.00 per year is a fair wage for them. The fault lies with Mom & Dad and the elementary school teachers. Mom & Dad turn their kids over to the school System ,trustenly , to teach; AND raise apperently. Children are still chilldren as long as they live under your roof. You are the provider,protector and Teacher. You are likewise the disciplinarian. What the hell is disciplin??Therein lies the secret. Spare the rod ,spoil the child. Spank juniors butt and they,ll put your buttt in jail for abuse or assault. You cannot instill the proper attitude without some disciplne being used sparinly and wisely. The world owes th;ese kids nothing except a fair chance at getting a job based upon their ability ,attitude and personality. The grades they made in school only means they attended most of the classes. It sure as hell doesn't mean they know anything about anything. Thank you for allowing me to vent on this but you started me thinking, which is a good thing at 80 years of age. What's going to happen when the world is totally in their hands??
Scary,huh?/
Bill Harding
Chatham,Ill.
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