Word: gradesã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During an Adams House study break last fall, Summers jokingly suggested instituting A-pluses and A-plus-pluses as a way to ameliorate a system where two grades??‘A’ and ‘A-minus’—measure the top half of students and seven grades measure the bottom half...
...discussion of the problems with Harvard’s current academic structure: there are major flaws in the current Core Curriculum, the academic advising system, and even the apathy of some professors and teaching fellows. But these descriptions succumb to an inherent bias. Douthat blasts the humanities for inflating grades??he argues that it’s a reaction to their “retreat into irrelevance”—and neglecting to prepare those students who are not headed for professorships of their own. Perhaps the history and literature department failed to prepare him adequately...
...standardized test scores first to limit their application pool. Students recognize this policy and accept it—regardless of its fairness—putting their dreams of becoming future doctors, lawyers, or bankers first. Finally, reducing their hard work to a simple drive—to get good grades??overlooks one important thing: students are learning. And while they might not share the genuine love for biology that others have, they are passionate about their future profession and the challenges and excitement it will offer...
...Mansfield launched a campaign against grade inflation where he issued his students two grades??one submitted to the registrar based on the College redistribution and the other, given privately, which reflected what he believed the student deserved. The latter was nearly always at least an entire letter grade lower, he said...
Some students said that increasing the flexibility of the curriculum—from requirements to grades??would encourage risk taking and make the College more satisfying for students...