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...prices have passed $50 a barrel, and fears abound that they're headed higher over the long term. What's next for oil, and what might higher prices mean for the global economy? To find out, AMY FELDMAN debriefed DANIEL YERGIN, one of the world's foremost oil experts. Yergin, 58, is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a member of the Secretary of Energy's advisory board and author of the Pulitzer prizewinning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power...
...Feldman added that with the curricular review in full gear, he thought that the issue of grade inflation has become less of a priority...
...Feldman proposed another alternative to ameliorate a grading problem he identified as compression—a narrowing of the range between high and low grades, especially as more are squeezed toward the top of the grade spectrum...
...serious about wanting to reduce the amount of grade compression, then one way of doing it would be to simply go to a completely new grading system,” Feldman said. “In other words instead of A through E, it might be 1 through...
Redefining the grading scale, Feldman said, would force faculty to rethink their grading practices...