Majority of Yale students got A's last year, frustrating some professors: 'Dishonest to our students'
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Yale professors and students said they were frustrated by grade inflation at the elite university, after a report showed nearly 80 percent of grades given last year were A's.
"When we act as though virtually everything that gets turned in is some kind of A — where A is supposedly meaning ‘excellent work’ — we are simply being dishonest to our students," philosophy professor Shelly Kagan told the Times. Kristine Parks is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Read more.
Yale student Gustavo Toledo, who is studying political science and plans to pursue law school, worried that grade inflation would hurt students who worked to earn high grades.
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