Matthew Ladner of the The Goldwater Institute writes in Ready, Shoot, Aim! about an attempt in Arizona to double the number of college graduates:
"Governor Janet Napolitano called for the doubling of the number of college graduates by 2020 in her 2007 state of the state address and paying the tuition for students who graduate high school with a B average. How fast can you say grade inflation?"
As Dr. Ladner writes, there are many bad ideas wrapped up in this simple proposal. Here are a couple:
1) Grade inflation. As the book The Greatest Management Principle Ever points out that which gets rewarded gets done. We've already had significant grade inflation over the last thirty years. It use to be that a "C" was the average grade.
2) Today we already have many college graduates working at jobs that don't need a degree. More is not always better.
I hope this idea gets dropped soon. Otherwise the people in Arizona will be funding another increase in spending on education, but there will be little benefit.
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