Yank: Grades should be based on real learning

Yank: Grades should be based on real learning

Matthew Yglesias’ opinion piece, “Maintain High Standards” (The Columbian, June 9), makes several questionable assumptions about equity grading that warrant a closer look. He equates the traditional 100-point grading scale and its familiar cutoffs (90 to 100 = A, etc.) with academic rigor and suggests that pursuing “egalitarian outcomes” inevitably means lowering standards. This view overlooks both the origins and limitations of the 100-point sc…