Grade Inflation Is Deflating the Workforce

If colleges keep handing out meaningless grades, more testing could provide a better measure of what students have learned.

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Graduates enter the Old Campus through Phelps Gate at Yale University for Commencement Day exercises in New Haven, Conn., May 19, 2025.

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In the 2004 Pixar movie The Incredibles, when Dash gets caught once again using his super speed to torment his elementary-school teacher, his mother admonishes him to try to fit in.

“Dad always said our powers are nothing to be ashamed of,” he says. “Our powers made us special.”

Christian Schneider

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Christian Schneider

Christian Schneider is a National Review contributor and writes the Anti-Knowledge newsletter. He is a co-host of the podcast Wasn't That Special: 50 Years of SNL.

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