Harvard’s Pinker: Standards for Students Have Fallen, But Grades Harvard Gives Them ‘Keep Getting Higher’

During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Harvard Psychology Professor Steven Pinker stated that standards for college students have declined while, at Harvard, “grades keep getting higher and higher.”

Host Bill Maher asked, “Professor, have standards for college students changed in recent years? Do they have trouble keeping up with the amount of reading that used to be required?”

Pinker answered, “The answer is yes, they have declined. And I can see it in my own class, which I’ve taught for 22 years. So, we had a meeting with the dean at Harvard, because grades keep getting higher and higher. … I’ve been…

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