Educators Largely Ignoring Declining Student Achievement: Last of three articles
Û¢ Little is being done at cither the jiational or state, level to determine the cause or extent of declining student achievement and rising grade inflation in the nationÛªs schools and colleges.</br></br>' Noticeably lacking is' government-sponsored research into these two phenomena, despite evidence of their existence for years.</br></br>Moreover, the relatively few school officials who concede that there is a decline in student achievement channel the blame for it everywhere but within the walls of the nationÛªs high Û¢ schools and colleges.</br></br>Virtually no official recognition of grade inflation. has been made in American high schools and although it is widely acknowledged in the countryÛªs colleges and universities, such 'acknowledgement has led to little action at the national and most state .levels.</br></br>Û¢. At various points across the country, plans are being made or action has been taken to reinstate academic requirements that were dropped during the last 10 years. And at some colleges and universities, steps are being taken to establish or expand remedial instruction.