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Rudenstine also strongly defended the administration's response to remarks by Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield which linked grade inflation to increasing enrollment of Black students in the Late 1960s...
Rudenstine added that he believed the grade inflation that began in the late 1960s was the result of a widespread questioning of the value, accuracy and meaning of grades as an indicator of ability and achievement...
Rudenstine stressed again yesterday his own disagreement with Mansfield's comments, referring to his own observations and experiences as a graduate student in the early 1960s and, later, as a junior faculty member at Harvard and an administrator at Princeton...
...once appeared on report cards, new studies confirm that Head Start "does not live up to potential." The well-known formula cited by Clinton ("One dollar spent now saves three later") reflects the success of one non-Head Start project at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in the 1960s. The latest investigation of Head Start itself, by the Health and Human Services Department, calls many of the approximately 1,300 Head Start programs that currently serve about 700,000 children poorly run and unsuccessful at providing youngsters with even basic care. Yale Professor Edward Zigler, an architect...
While grade inflation may be a phenomenon of the late 1960s and early 1970s--a time when Harvard did witness an increase in attendance by Black students--Mansfield seems to ignore the fact that at that time, Harvard was recruiting not only Black students, but also other underrepresented student populations...