{"id":21270,"date":"2023-12-12T01:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21270"},"modified":"2023-12-12T01:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:58:58","slug":"grade-inflation-report-reveals-majority-of-grades-given-at-yale-are-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21270","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grade Inflation\u2019: Report Reveals Majority of Grades Given at Yale Are A\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>A report revealed that the vast majority of grades given to Yale students last school year were A\u2019s, causing concern of \u201cgrade inflation\u201d post-coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report<\/a> by economics professor Ray Fair, was first reported in the Yale Daily News last week, showing that 78.97 percent of grades handed to undergraduates in the 2022-2023 school year were A\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fair told the student newspaper that grades began rising in 2020 when schools shut down due to the pandemic, but the trend is still continuing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome thought [the coronavirus effect] would be temporary, but it has more or less persisted. [It\u2019s] probably the faculty going easier on students because COVID was a pain,\u201d the professor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grade statistics were a surprise to students and professors, with some voicing<\/a> their concern to the New York Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we act as though virtually everything that gets turned in is some kind of A \u2014 where A is supposedly meaning \u2018excellent work\u2019 \u2014 we are simply being dishonest to our students,\u201d philosophy professor Shelly Kagan told the outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gustavo Toledo, a political science student, said he is worried that the high grades are hurting more than helping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Yale and other Ivy League institutions start getting these reputations for grade inflation, students who were already feeling pressured to get these high G.P.A.s will then feel that their work is sort of devalued,\u201d Toledo said. \u201cThis obviously doesn\u2019t help.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fair\u2019s report also revealed \u201clarge differences\u201d in grades given across different subjects, with a whopping 92.06 percent of Women\u2019s Gender & Sexuality Studies students earning A-range grades compared to 52.39 percent of students in economic courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dean of College Pericles Lewis told<\/a> Fox News that the university shared the report to \u201cprovide transparency to the university\u2019s community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYale students are admitted through a highly competitive process. It is not surprising that they are smart and well-prepared and therefore tend to earn high grades. In general, instructors determine the grading policies for their own classes, individually. And because classes vary so widely by type, size, and subject, guidelines vary within departments and among instructors,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yale isn\u2019t the only elite institution that appears to be inflating its grades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An October report<\/a> from Harvard University\u2019s Undergraduate Office revealed nearly identical statistics from the 2020-2021 school year \u2014 79 percent of grades were A\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Yale, there were differences between the grades in humanities courses compared to engineering and science courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proportion of A-range grades given in the 2020-21 academic year varied significantly by division: 73 percent in the Arts and Humanities, 65 percent in both the Sciences and Social Sciences, and 60 percent in courses at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,\u201d the Harvard Crimson reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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