Grade Inflation Advantages

Unhelpful Advantage The United States hands out more A’s than any other country in the world but is getting lower ranking in the math, science and reading fields each year (PISA 2015). So why is this happening and how did it come to be? Grade inflation in the US has caused a reduction in the ability to compete for jobs. As students have the same grades but are less prepared than those in other countries of the world. Combined in this paper are explanations as to why grade inflation started and continues to happen and the effects it has caused for the scholars living in the United States.

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However, there might not be enough data to correctly prove this. As stated in the paper by Times Higher Education, most colleges retain their information because they are afraid of what the data may prove. Nevertheless, grade inflation keeps threatening the education of the United States’ scholars and ultimately their future.

A side effect of grade inflation that has become prominent in the US is the lack of credibility of the grades awarded to students. The rise in GPA over the years has led to new speculations about the solution to this problem, such as having grades downgraded by the schools’ admissions office (Hurwitz 2017). It also came to Hurwitz’s attention that private schools (high schools and universities) are the only institutions that have suffered a major blow by grade inflation. This ‘new’ discovery supports the idea that now schools see scholars as consumers, and not just as students who want to learn (Hurwitz

College professors seem to think that positive rewards for the students spent money is more important than realistic feedback on school subjects. Students’ expect to have high grades because of the amount of money they ‘invested’ in the school/university. When lower grades are assigned (the appropriate grade) students complain and drop out of classes, damaging or hurting the professors’ and possibly the schools’ reputation. Grade inflation has caused students to expect higher and higher grades, not the grades they actually deserve. This then turns into a cycle: students invest more, they expect more, teachers award higher grades, national GPAs