After reading “The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation” I feel
like Kohn is sound because of all the various reasons he gives to us. He gives
us true and understandable reasons. He gives a lot of reasons to why grades are
rising. To get a more accurate picture of whether grades have changed over the
years, one needs to look at official student transcripts. Clifford Adelman, a
senior research analyst with the U.S. Department of Education, did just that,
reviewing transcripts from more than 3,000 institutions and reporting his
results in 1995. His finding: "Contrary to the widespread lamentations,
grades actually declined slightly in the last two decades." He talks a lot
about the SAT’s and how that test affects one another with the grades they
score on it. Henry Rosovsky, formerly Harvard's dean of the faculty says, “The
first argument offered in support of the proposition that students couldn't
possibly deserve higher grades is that SAT scores have dropped during the same
period that grades are supposed to have risen.” Kohn is correct because everything
he has said is true and supported making his argument about grades sound.
