The Long View of Higher Ed’s Decline
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-view-of-higher-eds-decline-college-university-professor-conservative-harvard-96bb22a5
Mr. Mansfield also argues that the ills of grade inflation have seeped into wider American society. “One of the things grade inflation does is to rob students of knowledge of what they’re good at, and not so good at.” Ostensible success in school “doesn’t tell employers whether the graduates of college are good at something. It robs us of necessary information.” That’s bad for democracy, Mr. Mansfield says, “because it makes society attempt something—or satisfy itself that it’s done something—that is impossible, which is to do away with human inequalities.”
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-view-of-higher-eds-decline-college-university-professor-conservative-harvard-96bb22a5
Mr. Mansfield also argues that the ills of grade inflation have seeped into wider American society. “One of the things grade inflation does is to rob students of knowledge of what they’re good at, and not so good at.” Ostensible success in school “doesn’t tell employers whether the graduates of college are good at something. It robs us of necessary information.” That’s bad for democracy, Mr. Mansfield says, “because it makes society attempt something—or satisfy itself that it’s done something—that is impossible, which is to do away with human inequalities.”
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/grade-inflation-harvard-christian-decline-eaad9b61
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2024/04/are-us-universities-overrated.html
The Sins of the Educated Class
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/opinion/elites-progressives-universities.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/opinion/elites-progressives-universities.html