Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people who claim there's grade inflation at Harvard: A clue...
...about May 14--the last day of Reading Period. It is not a coincidence that all of your papers are due then. The Office of the Registrar has taken the liberty of slotting the date of May 19 (the first Monday of exams) as the deadline for all grades for non-proctored classes. Professors or teaching fellows use the weekend before to read (or, more realistically given the time constraints, spot check) your final papers and guesstimate a proper final grade...
Students are permitted to ask for a "regrade," if they disagree with an exam grade, but changing answers for a regrade is cheating...
Students are nominated for election into the honor society on the basis of their grade-point averages (GPAs). Those students must then solicit recommendations from two faculty members. Final selection is based on grades and on the depth and difficulty of the student's course work, according to Kobrinsky...
...Honeywell Inc. proposes to mobilize 8,000 employees to serve as mentors to grade-schoolers, recruit 4,000 volunteers to work with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity (best known for employing Jimmy Carter as an occasional carpenter) to build affordable housing and talk 1,000 more retirees into working in various children's programs. Honeywell's contribution to educational programs is $20 million...