Inflated Grades, Inflated Enrollment, and Inflated Budgets: An Analysis and Call for Review at the State Level

Creator

J. E. Stone

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

June 1995

Abstract

Reports of the past 13 years that call attention to deficient academic standards in American higher education are enumerated. Particular attention is given the Wingspread Group's recent An American Imperative: Higher Expectations for Higher Education. Low academic standards, grade inflation, and budgetary incentives for increased enrollment are analyzed and a call is made for research at the state level. Reported trends in achievement and GPAs are extrapolated to Tennessee and combined with local data to support the inference that 15% of the state's present day college graduates would not have earned a diploma by mid 1960s standards.

Extent

32

Geographic Location

Tennessee

Volume

3

Issue

11

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00040

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Stone, J. E., "Inflated Grades, Inflated Enrollment, and Inflated Budgets: An Analysis and Call for Review at the State Level" (1995). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 289.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/289