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Grade Inflation is a Symptom, Not the Disease (Part 5): Harvard Gets Real about the True Purpose of Grades
The recent report Re-Centering Academics at Harvard College revealed that in 2025, As accounted for 60% of grades at Harvard’s undergraduate college. Because Harvard has outsized influence on conversations about higher ed, this report inspired a flurry of op-eds about whether the university has “gone soft.” These concerns have, unsurprisingly, focused on alleged grade inflation… Continue reading
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Grade Inflation is a Symptom, not the Disease (Part 1): The Sorting and Supporting Functions of Education
Amid my ongoing series on the wicked problem of assessment, I am devoting several posts to the latest controversy (scandal? moral panic?) about “grade inflation” in higher ed.(Seriously, we are talking about podcast titles like “Has Harvard Gone Soft”?). This issue is obviously assessment-coded, but its sensitivity to current events merits its own subseries. Before… Continue reading
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