Word: brightest
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...likely the case the admissions office has failed to admit an entering group of frosh worse than the previous year’s class for many years now. This, of course, blatantly disregards the fact that such an audacious and unchecked policy of enrolling the country’s brightest students year after year is likely a leading cause of higher grades here...
...virtually unknown in the U.S. but Americans are starting to find out what her Japanese fans already recognize: that Utada, 18, is one of the best and brightest young pop stars in the world. The Japanese media, of course, routinely sing her praises: "BILINGUAL STRAIGHT-A STUDENT" and "THE DIVA OF THE HEISEI PERIOD!" And the Japanese public devours her music: her debut CD, First Love (1999), sold more than 9.5 million copies, making it the best-selling album in Japanese history. Her latest CD, Distance, has also become a huge hit, with fans buying more than 3 million copies...
...Paul Hunter was one of the brightest video talents to come out of that wave. Hunter, who grew up in Queens, originally wanted to be a painter. "That's what probably stimulated my interest in color now," he said when I wrote a story about him in TIME in 1997. "I wanted to be a Basquiat or Keith Haring." He embarked on a career as a still photographer but decided to study film at California State University at Northridge after visiting a movie set when his brother, an aspiring actor, got a part in an indie film. Hunter later dropped...
...humbly propose that the best solution to the problem of grade inflation would be a return to student rank. In each class, large and small, the professor should list the students in order, from the brightest to the dullest. Only then should the professor begin assigning grades, awarding the top students with glowing A’s, and slowly working down the ladder to the dismal depths...
Admittedly, the above examples deal with students at the very top of the class. It could be argued that the brightest students will shine no matter what, and that grade inflation is more a problem for students in the middle of the class, between whom it becomes impossible to draw distinctions when grades are inflated. To this I respond that a bell-curve shaped distribution, with a concentration of grades in the middle, is only natural. Indeed, grade inflation’s most virulent decriers still advocate such a distribution, only centered around a C rather than...