Grade inflation kills college's talent-signaling role, economist warns
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-18
Economist Paul Novosad argues colleges' useful role was signaling talent—hard admission plus hard grades. Grade inflation destroyed both: firms now rely on intensive interviews, students skip classwork to prep for assessments, and professors wonder why students don't work—"sowing the seeds of our own irrelevance."
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