"Students... performed abysmally on exams that would have seemed too easy only a few years ago...."

"Exams that should have yielded a B average dropped to C- or worse. Single digit scores became common and we even had zeros on exams, something that had never happened before. Despite those declining scores, about 60 percent of my students still got As and Bs this past semester. At the same time the bottom was dropping out under the poorly performing members of the class; the top students, while still deserving their excellent grades, were no longer being stretched. Previously, they would be getting 90s, now they were routinely getting 100. Their A grades would not change of course, but they were not being challenged and thus not learning as much as they should."

From "I was fired from NYU after students complained that the class was too hard. Who’s next?/In these times when critical thinking skills are desperately needed, it is more important than ever to dedicate ourselves to the high standards of education" by Maitland Jones Jr.