ACTA in the News | Grade Inflation

America Needs Tough Grading

Undeserved As mean a bad education and deprive the world of students’ potential.
WALL STREET JOURNAL   |  September 1, 2025 by Joshua Katz and Solveig Gold

Students will respect you if you respect them by being honest about the quality of their work and taking the time to help them do better. Often you and they are both fully aware that they haven’t really tried. Make them want to try. You never know the difference your feedback could make. Our C-plus papers were both about Homer, and we went on to become classicists. Would this have happened if our professors had let us coast on unearned confidence?

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