Word: beckers
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...high grades in order to make you happy and to help you get the good jobs you deserve. Her remarks, lacking even at iota of the self-critical altitude which Harvard should (but often doesn't) instill in its students, closely resemble the arguments put forth by Sean Becker of the U.C. during March 11's IOP panel discussion on grade inflation...
...Reiter's and Mr. Becker's sake--and for the sake of anyone who might be tempted to agree with them--allow me to enumerate a few of the many problems brought on by grade inflation. Note that I do not advocate a curve, but rather merely adherence to higher standards, in which C would, once again, more or less represent...
PRODUCTION: Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...
...Becker argued for more professorial involvement in the grading process instead of overall grade deflation...
Grade deflation "will create a more stressful, competitive environment in which we are competing as much for grades, for grades' sake, as for learning for knowledge's sake," Becker said...