Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-standing Celtic fan (I stayed up late at night while in grade school to watch the Celts beat the Lakers in the late fifties and early sixties), I enjoyed reading your article on the demise of the Cs. However, Auerbach is not the culprit. He is the victim...
...grade-inflation is the source of the jump in the number of summa degrees, raising the GPA cut-off--one of the ideas forwarded at last Wednesday's Faculty Council meeting--is certainly not the solution. One of inflation's most unfortunate consequences is that as grades are concentrated in an increasingly narrow range, the distinctions among levels of academic achievement become blurred, rendering grades a less effective means of measuring performance...
...honest. The Class of 1996 got by from cribbing notes and study sheets from the Class of 1997. This nuance should not be lost on The Crimson staff--or on the Faculty that is so worried about "grade inflation...
...good TF can transform a class, involving students in discussion and making even the dullest material fascinating. A bad TF can mean extra work, a section that is a waste of time or sometimes even a bad grade...
...head TF and they tend to grade harder because I think they're in charge of keeping the grade point average down," he says...