#894: The victims of grade inflation, with Tim Donahue

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Tim Donahue, an English teacher at the Greenwich Country Day School, joins Mike to discuss who loses when grades are inflated. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reports on a new study that examines if Tennessee’s new school funding law really is progressive.

Recommended content:

• “If everyone gets an A, no one gets an A” —Tim Donahue, New York Times
• “Grade inflation is not a victimless crime” —Frederick Hess, The Education Gadfly
• Christopher Candelaria, Ishtiaque Fazlul, Cory Koedel, and Kenneth Shores, “Weighting for Progressivity? An Analysis of Implicit Tradeoffs Associated with Weighted Student Funding in Tennessee,” Annenberg Institute (October 2023).

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