Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both cases he did those things by applying the computer skills he had been sharpening since the second grade to problems he saw at Harvard...
...answer lies in tradition. The abolition of grades would demand a gargantuan mental shift throughout the college. It is highly unlikely that such a radical solution to grade inflation will be accepted in the near future, if ever...
Still, the problem of grade inflation is so confounding that it may prove useful to keep the most basic answer in mind...
Admittedly, students who concentrate their efforts on academics would have a more difficult time proving their excellence without letter grades. However, because only the final course grade would be pass-fail, instructors could identify their most brilliant students by performances on tests and assignments. When the time came for these students to apply for jobs and graduate schools, they could ask for recommendations from those instructors familiar with their work. Likewise, instructors could identify floundering students needing extra help by nothing who performs poorly...
However, Harvard students sometimes appear to lack the intelligence that they are too often heralded for. In one crucial field, Harvard students continue to struggle to make the grade...