Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feldman suggested that the first problem, grade inflation itself, was not as much a concern at among the council members as grade inequity--the disparity of grades between different departments...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has recommended to the council that Harvard's grading system become "linearized," closing the gap between an A- and a B+ grade. Currently, an A- is worth 14 points, and a B+ is worth 12 points...
Feldman said the council postponed the discussion on the CUE's recommendation, and focused more on the problem of grade inflation. In interviews, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles has characterized the CUE's proposal and grade inflation as separate issues
Initially, it was Janowski's impressive stature that prompted her to play basketball in the fourth grade. Although she sometimes felt awkward about her height, she decided to use it to her advantage in the sports arena...
...problems of race and disempowerment in the inner city, the play starts to careen out of control in the earliest minutes. While an unseen saxophonist plays, tableaus of conflict are played out on the stage. A young man (Kevin Crockett) fights with his preacher father (Tyrone Bean); a preposterous, grade-schooler's version of a prostitute (Melanie Futorian) fights with her john (Dwight Hart). Meanwhile, incredibly realistic-looking homeless people (Nick Linski and Tania Guimond), complete with filthy hair and that unsettling, rocking motion of the mentally disturbed, drift through the audience, with cups out for money...