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Lately, presidents of some American universities have added inflation to their worry list. They are not concerned about inflatio
Lately, presidents of some American universities have added inflation to their worry list. They are not concerned about inflatio
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2018-05-18
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Lately, presidents of some American universities have added inflation to their worry list. They are not concerned about inflation of prices, but of academic grades. Larry Summers, president of Harvard, recently caused a storm when he told one of the university’s professors he didn’t like grade inflation.
Insiders say that nearly half the grades Harvard awards have lately been A or A-minus-a lot more than in the 1980s. Is this trend a bad thing, in fact? And is this grade inflation really "inflation" ?
To take the second question first, the answer is No, not strictly speaking. "Inflation" in grades ought to mean that work of a given standard would be awarded an ever higher grade, year by year. The highest permissible grade would therefore have to keep rising in a ceaseless procession of non-improvement. Because in reality the top grade is fixed, the process is not so much grade inflation as grade compression. This is worse: a distortion in relative prices is more confusing than a uniform upward, drift. Grade compression squeezes information out of the system.
But is grade inflation necessarily a bad thing? The answer depends on who you are. When students leave Harvard, they carry grades as a sort of currency: a pocketful of intellectual capital, to bid for jobs or places in graduate schools against graduates from other universities with other currencies. These positions go to those who can put the most academic cash on the table. Employers and graduate schools must decide on the exchange rate, as it were, between a Harvard C student and an A student from a less distinguished place.
Again, overall grade inflation--the uniform devaluation of the students’ capital would be relatively easy to cope with, working in principle neither to the advantage or disadvantage of Harvard graduates. Recruiters, in a position to see the market for graduates as a whole, would simply adjust their exchange rate. Compression, however, has distributional consequences. The best Harvard students see their grades devalued relative to those of second-rate Harvard students. That is bad with respect to encouraging students to work harder.
As far as job-seeking is concerned, Harvard grade inflation will benefit ______.
选项
A、its best graduates
B、its ordinary graduates
C、the job recruiters
D、the school authorities
答案
B
解析
推理题。根据文章第四段内容,出去找工作时,学分高的学生获得工作的可能性更大,雇主在录取人员时,会考虑选择一个哈佛毕业但只获得c的学生,还是选择一个学校并不那么出名却获得过A的学生,由此可推知,哈佛成绩一般的学生在找工作时更能从学分通胀中获益,故选B。
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