Grades Are All Average

Back in 1969 getting a C on a test or homework was acceptable. However, as the day go by, it seems that getting a C is the “mark of Cain.” Why is that? A professor from Duke University and a visiting scholar to Stanford University, Stuart Rojstaczer, asked that same question. After doing his own research, he wrote the article “Where All Grades Are Above Average” which analyzes the phenomena that is commonly known as grade inflation in several universities and colleges. Rojstaczer explains, “the previous signs of academic disaster, D and F, went by the wayside in the Vietnam era, when flunking out meant becoming eligible for the draft.” Many parts of the United States disagreed with the country’s involvement with the war. Rojstaczer explains