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...nature a negative academic move. In 2004, Princeton officially implemented a grade-deflation policy intending that As would make up only 35 percent of the grades given out in each department. However, five years later in the 2008-2009 academic year, As still made up 39.7 percent of all grades??and even this relatively high number was considered a major accomplishment. This situation reflects complications that grade deflation encounters at the individual level. Even if a grade-deflation policy were announced, high-achieving Harvard students would expect the same grades from before the policy shift. This expectation would...
When I wake up every Tuesday and Thursday in order to audit, I’m reminded of why I came to college in the first place. Watching a brilliant professor do his thang—without the pressure of assigned readings, or section discussions, or grades??actually allows me to listen. I’m not tempted to check Gmail; in fact, I don’t even bring my computer. I’m there because I want to be. In an ideal world, of course, the same would apply to college as a whole...
...said, ‘How come I didn’t get in?’” Nesson recalls. “He said, ‘Well, you’ve got good board scores but lousy grades??. That means you’re smart but, you’re lazy. We don’t want you. Go to Yale.’” Instead, Nesson improved his grades, and he was admitted the following year...
...freedom” in education to satisfy the diverse demands within the Academy and to demur from supposing it knows better than students themselves in what their university educations should consist. Unsurprisingly, an incoherent academic vision and ever-declining standards—along with ever-inflating grades??are the hallmarks of today’s higher education...
...their pupils and are in the classroom to learn as well. For one, students have not had broad exposure over many semesters to the methods and types of instruction that professors variously employ. They furthermore place too much weight on short-term priorities—scant homework and easy grades??than more far-sighted goals, such as mastery of the subject matter. Students’ short, four-year time horizon clouds their vistas and consequently biases any potentially helpful advice they might proffer.Of course, the process of education does not and should not terminate with the receipt...