Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Between 1998 and 2008, the percentage of college-bound high school seniors with a GPA equal to letter grades of A+, A or A- increased from 38% to 42%, while the average SAT scores for that group decreased by 15 points from 565 to 550 for the Reading section, and by 19 points from 578 to 569 for the Math section (data here from The College Board, Table 17). 
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
6 Comments:
Is it reasonable to ask that maybe grades are inflated at high schools so that federal funding is insured -- everybody's grades go up so that fewer students fail? Maybe when tests are given that are standardized then the true level of learning is shown. Why do we even have a Department of Education at the federal level?
That's worse than inflation. That's educational stagflation.
It would be interesting to see grade distributions from Prof. Perry's classes.
Do you have the corresponding information for the ACT, which is the test taken much more often here in Minnesota?
As I told my teenager, the teachers are handing out A's like sugar-free candy!
If she ever gets a B, it's akin to failure.
didn't the SATs change between 1998 and 2008? and so wouldn't this be the oranges to apples problem?
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