Posted on 07/17/2011 5:24:42 PM PDT by Salman
A new study shows that the most common grade at four-year U.S. colleges and universities is an A, which accounts for 43 percent of all grades, and the second most common grade is a B, which accounts for 34 percent of all grades. The study points to the idea that grade inflation at U.S. colleges is, yes, really rampant. But it also points out that those who manage to show up for class tend to be fine, and that professors are finally acknowledging just how challenging that can be. When you're wasted and everything, at least. Ah, college. WE MISS YOU. Anyhow.
No wonder my employer had to start hiring PhD’s for jobs that used to be done by BS degree holders.
At many schools, professors are ranked (to varying degrees) by their student evaluations. These rankings are key to the granting of tenure, promotion, and/or contract renewal. Since the students are the “customer”, this would seem to make sense. But a happy customer (e.g., one who gets an A) is more likely to give a good evaluation than one who gets a C—even if the person who got the C learned more. The pressure to give As is also driven by the need to recruit students (especially at private schools) and (in some cases) fear of complaints by students/parents, or even legal action. As a result, many professors take the easy way out and give an A.
When Daddy is paying $50K/year, he damn well expects Junior or Missy to be getting straight As.
IMO... Its more about money than education. You fail the kid on a pell grant or other goobermint program you lose the cash cow.
Little Johnnie gets an A an college scam gets A bunch of cash for babysitting little Johnnie.
Just my opinion of course.
Lake Wobegon comes to mind.
Good grades mean the student comes back next semester. A degree from a university has become a Participation Trophy. Employers consider it to be a ticket that needs to be punched to insure that the employee is trained to join the hive mind.
Wouldn’t want to hurt the little darlin’s feeling...
I got my BS in 73 just barely. I had a 2.09 avg on a 4.0 scale.
Many years later in order to get into grad school I had to return to my alma mater and improve my grades. I pulled a perfect 4.0 that year.
I was not that much better of a student.
When I was in college (70’s) you had to work your butt off to get an A, and even a B was still hard work. In those days the teachers took pride that only a few students got A’s in their “hard” classes. What a joke college has become. Then again I was studying a science, maybe the arts and crafts were a different story.
There is some truth to that. I am an adjunct professor at a community college teaching American History and the Constitution. Personality also plays a part though. Last semester I taught two classes, totalling about 42 students. Between the two courses I gave out 4 “A’s” and 7 “F’s”. There were also 6 “D’s” and the rest spread about. Invariably I get terrible reviews in my online courses because I am absolutely anal about spelling, grammar and citations. On the other hand, with the same standards I get rave reviews in person. I can make more of a connection with students in person....fortunately I’m an adjunct and not trying for tenure.
When I was in college in the 70s, my college (Science) had an average GPA of 2.4, but it was 3.8 at the College of Education. 40 years later, it seems the latter won the fight!
Indeed, I graduated in 79 with a 3.18 and sweated blood to do it.
When you’re paying what today’s students are paying, you’re going to expect no less than an A! The Atlanta cheating scandal isn’t the only educational scandal out there.
No, I had taken several 3 or 5 hour courses over the years.
My employer for instance required I have 3 hours of accounting tho they later dropped the requirement.
hussein obama should tell his girls that if they get a “B” in a class, they should give it to a pupil who gots a “D”, so they both can gets a “C”.
My daughter got her bachelors and then went directly to the masters program. As she said to me, “a bachelor’s degree isn’t worth anything out in the job market anymore.”
It proves that Marxist ideology is rampant in the colleges. Everyone is equal. It also confirms that colleges are meaningless, and no longer require excellence—evil competition, you know. No standards, other than everyone is equal.
A’s in what, by the way? Queer studies, woman studies? Children would be better off to drop out of school at age 13, like Carnegie and Twain and Franklin, etc. There is a correlation between the number of years in the indoctrination centers and the adoption of irrationality—stupid ideas that never work. (only in the hard sciences is this not so, but Marxists have even infested their curricula. Check it out. 2 + 2 = 5 and John Maynard Keynes, the sodomite, socialist, pederast’s ideas are the elevated ones in all macro-economic courses at the elite university classes.....go figure!!!!! Sewage minds.
Dumbing down is all about destroying the excellence—can’t have the evil white people be exceptional, now, can we? Particularly that evil Jew. /sarc. Marx is in control of our education system—get your kids OUT. Burn all textbooks—they have been infested with the psychology of BF Skinner and Alfred Kinsey and the perverted mind of Bill Ayers. Sick that our Foundations (all Marxists so not suprising) funds sick minds to shape the thinking of our children.
Beware—psychology is put into the methodologies taught in public school to create no intellectual growth—it is all brainwashing—to produce one response to all questions—the right response which is the Marxist one, of course. It comes from the “feel good, do it” vein of moral relativism—we decide right and wrong—there is no God—we are gods, your rights come from us—government. That worldview is being forced on your children.
It should be obvious by the election of zero and the type of people in ACORN and SIEU—all thugs...useful idiots who couldn’t tell you anything about anything important—esp. the geniuses of the Classics which they have NEVER heard of in all the years of schooling.....twice the number of years prior to WWII that most people had...yet, dumb as stumps who think government is the answer to all problems. Just perfect little marxists who settle for crumbs.
A’s weren’t that common in my day-—I saw to that!!!!!
that could be done by high school dropouts.
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