Word: grades
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Seven pages. With illustrations and an annotated bibliography. That's what one student presented in a class I am taking this semester. Though the presentation forms a nebulous part of the course grade and no clear standards were ever laid out for how thorough and researched it needed to be, he out-did himself...
...ordinary? Why is it that in so many classes students just try to close their eyes and hang on until the ride is over? We have all, at one time or another, calculated exactly how little work we need to do to get the minimal grade we could accept. Among seniors, this turns into speculation over how many credits can be frittered away before endangering our Harvard diplomas...
...attempts to refute the claim that Core courses are easier (and thus less rigorous educational experiences) by examining grading patterns: they note that mean Core grades are lower than the introductory departmental classes in similar fields. Apparently, the Committee has never read the "welcome" issue of the Crimson, mailed to incoming Harvard first-years, which explains the distinction between a "work gut" and a "grade...
...committee also considered grade inflation and the pass/fail deadline during its meeting yesterday...
Beth Carman, a family liaison for the King School and mother of first- and third-grade boys at the school, says that she does not personally want to see the merger happen because "the small school concept is a good concept" but notes that the stance of the King School Council is "not totally against a merger...