Devorah Staples ''' Why Colleges Shower Their Students With A's?

In both Devorah Lieberman’s “Stop Scaring Students,” and Brent Staples’s “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s,” the value of a college education is argued. This topic is attention worthy because potential students need to be aware of both the benefits and downfalls of college systems today. Although both authors have vastly differing opinions about this issue, they both aim to inform the reader of what a college student might encounter while pursuing a higher education.

In "Stop Scaring Students," Devorah Lieberman emphasizes the importance and value of a college education. The author does this through the ideas that college is worth the time, counselors should assist students through guidance of their career and college choices, and

This notion is expressed through the ideas that professors are bullied into inflation, the University of Phoenix and its like are cheapening college educations, and the idea that the efforts to fix the problem through a different GPA weight distribution have been overruled. As a start, Staples implies that students and pension are the main reason that teachers inflate grades. In the text, the author suggests that "Professors at every level inflate grades to escape negative evaluations by students" (1). The inference is that there 's a pressure for teachers to grade unfairly. Next, the author illustrates the notion that colleges like University of Phoenix are ruining the value of a college degree. According to the author, inflation of grades lessens the value of the degree and creates a rouse that is progressively getting less illusory (Staples 2). The implication is that recent inflation is bastardizing the integrity of a college degree, however, it also is making an Associates degree less special and desirable to an employer. Lastly, the author points out that the efforts to speak out and attempt to change the current issue via GPA distribution reconfiguration have been unaccepted. The author infers that any idea or suggestion to change GPA distribution will be widely unappreciated (Staples 2). This means that students want easy classes to maintain value and teachers want