A few years ago, I penned an op-ed in this space about grade inflation. Unfortunately, the problem has gotten noticeably worse, as highlighted by the Review-Journal in its Nov. 12 editorial, “Deceiving students, parents and communities.”

The pandemic gave many colleges and universities cover to drop SAT and/or ACT scores as an admission requirement. As many of us predicted, the results on campus were disastrous. Institutions of higher learning had to offer many more remedial courses, and professors found themselves unable to teach college-level material to utterly unprepared students. The editorial noted that 25 percent of students in a recent incoming class at UC-San Diego got a second-grade-level math question wrong.

To their credit, many universities have reinstituted the testing requ

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