How to Use grade inflation in a Sentence

grade inflation

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• This has set off a new round of hand-wringing about grade inflation.
  — Mitch Zimmer, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
• The Vietnam era had steeper grade inflation than any time since.
  — Aden Barton, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Whatever the outcome, grade inflation has gained steam over the past decade.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
• Academic researchers say that uptick is a sign of grade inflation, not of smarter students.
  — Melissa Korn, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• But this isn’t some early debate and this scorecard doesn’t believe in grade inflation.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• By virtue of those changes, digitizing college life has led to grade inflation, too.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
• Teachers’ unions and politicians have complained of grade inflation.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2020
• Test scores are more reliable than high school grades, partly because of grade inflation in recent years.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• The debate around grade inflation has stretched from the classroom to the Oval Office.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
• Several years ago, many began believing that grade inflation had gone too far.
  — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• To demand a fix for grade inflation is to put multiple-choice answers on an essay question.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
• But to fully fix grade inflation, Harvard would need to treat the A cap as a starting point for broader changes.
  — Neetu Arnold, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
• This often does lead to dropping out, to a watering down of standards, grade inflation and other pathologies of the modern era.
  — Richard Vedder, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• Visible acts of dadliness are subject to a kind of social grade inflation that Gomez is savvy to utilize.
  — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• University administrators have long known that grade inflation is a problem, but no one has been willing to do much about it.
  — Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Washington Post, 25 May 2026
• Aiding some parents in this delusional journey is the current epidemic of grade inflation in both high school and college.
  — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
• This situation is guaranteed to engineer grade inflation for mediocre work as the pool of titles shrinks.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020
• Universities need to strengthen their academic standards before grade inflation gets out of hand.
  — WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• But some educators are wary that going test-optional would spark even more grade inflation as high school teachers could be pressured to award more As.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• In fact, Reed is renowned for an absence of grade inflation that reflects the rigor of our academic program and the high standards set by the faculty.
  — WSJ, 15 Feb. 2021
• The usual response is to clap, which the phenomenon of grade inflation is turning into routine standing ovations.
  — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026
• Colleges are failing today’s young adults — beyond grade inflation, junk courses and trading facts for ideology.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
• Concerns about grade inflation have also drawn scrutiny from Washington.
  — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
• Transcripts and diplomas don’t carry much weight for many employers, as grade inflation has reduced the worth of a cumulative grade point average.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
• One of the biggest stumbling blocks is whether all applicants should be required to take an entrance exam to safeguard against grade inflation or whether the use of test scores should be optional.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2021
• That university and our country have made great strides since, despite our being unable, 126 years later, to shed fears of grade inflation.
  — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• At the same time, college admissions officers warn, grade inflation is real, as is variability among schools and grading systems.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2021
• However, the study found grade inflation benefitted some students, specifically those at threat of flunking out.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
• Because of grade inflation, many parents are also unaware that their children are behind academically.
  — Anna North, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024